I applied through university. I interviewed at CGI (Fairfax, VA) in Sept 2016
Interview
Hiring Process overall took about 1.5 months. Met CGI reps at a college career fair. Did my first round of interviews on campus and then about 1-2 weeks later received an email to do an on-site interview a few weeks later. Went to the on-site interview and there was a nice introduction followed by a lunch panel and then 2-rounds of interviewing(with 2 different interviewers). Might be the other way around depending on if you interview in the morning or afternoon. Mine was in the afternoon. Told we would hear back in the next week. Got an offer a few days later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give an example of a time you had to solve a conflict within a team
CGI scheduled the interview for 30 minutes and there was only one interviewer. He initially asked basic questions about background and experience. He explained about the company and was open to questions
Was super laid back and casual, the interviewer was super nice! Still had typical interview questions (describe a time where..., etc) but overall pretty stress-free first-round interview.
Lasted about 40-45 minutes as the interviewer was very conversational as well. Only advice I can give is to be personable and have a conversation.
I applied online. I interviewed at CGI in Oct 2025
Interview
Applied online, was told to connect with a recruiter at my university's job fair. They forwarded along my resume. There was a phone interview over Handshake. There was another interview with 2 parts (a technical and a personal) a few weeks later. The interviewer was around 10 minutes late with no communication which threw off the second interview. There was also supposed to be a Q&A the same day, but it got rescheduled to several weeks later. There was very little communication unless I initiated it. The whole process felt very unprofessional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were several questions regarding how to debug SQL code.