Good company, bad office - Trainee Software Engineer CGI Employee Review

3.0
4 Jun 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible working, lots of interesting projects, good work life balance. Reasonable graduate salary. Share purchase plan and good pension scheme

Cons

Only one opportunity for promotion per year, if you narrowly miss out you must wait a year. Particularly bad for placement students returning as graduates who will work for nearly 2 years without ever having a performance review or being considered for promotion. Office is too small for number of employees and lacks facilities enjoyed by other employees such as a big enough car park, good canteen

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5.0
11 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great Benefits Great Pay, Flexibility, Great Culture

Cons

Back to in office, Share price not doing great

2.0
7 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The team for whom I worked was great. One of the best.

Cons

Other teams not so much. Herding cats and you end up taking over on an IMC call for something not even in your sphere. I feel they blacklist employees they RIF. I had a great Director try to get me in with other BUs and nothing. He tried again and again. Others who got RIF'd told me the same. Not good. Also, seems people look over their shoulders looking for the Grim Reaper. Not a good way to be. And the higher ups that are in charge of client retention seem to not be the ones on the firing line, only the consultants that did great work for the clients who decide to leave. HR who is supposed to help get another job within the company are worthless. They want you to do all the work. Also, CGI is so big teams only know what they know. Learning other teams' stuff seems to be frowned upon. How can you move around? This login makes you stuck.

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