Beware the bench! - Software Developer CGI Employee Review

3.0
20 Jun 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Co-workers are great for most of them - Great promises and great mandate to start, but if ever you loose that mandate, see the cons... - Great working machine, mostly laptop. - Allow remote working

Cons

- If you're being put on the bench, start searching another job now! Chances you got a new mandate are low especially if you're on the bench more than a few weeks. Basically they try to make you leave before they have to cut you at this point. - Great laptops but poor software configuration leading to poor performing machine... Encryption and AV protection kill it. Those are both necessary but could be configured to be less intrusive and performance wise all-around without compromising much... - You have to be with the right peoples to grow in that company.

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5.0
27 May 2026
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Pros

Good work environment Strong leadership

Cons

Room for growth can be limited unless you really seek it out.

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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