Good company, terrible benefits. - Programme Analyst CGI Employee Review

4.0
28 Dec 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I love the local member, I have worked there 12 years, there were some early issues but since they realized they were having too much turnover and took step to correct this things have improved. This competitive salaries in ranges that make sense and aren't showing favoritism, and employee health and well being initiatives. The CGI folk in western Canada are too notch to work with, and policies are very open and collaborative.

Cons

CGI Corporate in eastern Canada do not seem to recognize the contribution and possibilities from the west, as they keep taking contracts for better corporate tax breaks (ie data center, call center, programming contracts all pulled east). This resulted in many Regina local empoyees losing their jobs, with only a few even having the opportunity to move east with the contracts. Followed by things like pulling all ability to resolve issues in a fair and timely Manor from local deskside until we lost the one (very good one at that) member who did deskside onsite, and now share 1 deskside across all of western Canada? The data center and call center were doing quite well, with many long term contracts, happy customers, and new contracts coming in, poof pulled east, huge job loss locally.

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5.0
20 Apr 2026
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Pros

Culture and work/life balance are what has kept me here

Cons

Benefits, salary could be better

2.0
7 May 2026
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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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