Your experience depends on your team - Applications Developer CGI Employee Review

3.0
10 Jul 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Colleagues are talented and friendly. I learned a ton from my team and had a lot of opportunities to be mentored by some truly talented developers and software architects. Management is intelligent and experienced. I was very impressed by the technical skill of my entire team, including my ITPM. There are plenty of job opportunities at CGI for college graduates. The relationships I witnessed between QA, development, and project management were all very positive. I have several friends who work for CGI on different teams and continue to enjoy their work there to this day.

Cons

Your experience at CGI is directly dependent on which team and project you get placed on. The entire side of the building I worked on was always uncomfortably silent. The majority of my work went towards bug fixing software built on deprecated frameworks. My ITPM's expectations were difficult to meet. My team had normalized long shifts (9 AM - 9 PM+) and weekend work to meet these expectations. After being pressured to work over 100 hours in one week, I decided to start looking for a job elsewhere.

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28 Jun 2026
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Pros

Very friendly atmosphere and great people

Cons

Hybrid schedule required and city commute

1.0
16 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

no specific positives to highlight from my perspective

Cons

I worked at CGI in both India and the USA and observed similar workplace culture concerns across both locations. The only real difference was HR—India HR felt more supportive, while my experience with USA HR was disappointing. My employment ended shortly after maternity leave due to an alleged “lack of projects,” which I experienced as a layoff. I also observed what appeared to be misuse of position by some leaders, including blurred professional boundaries, preferential treatment, and expectations that went beyond normal workplace roles—at times resembling personal-assistant-style demands rather than professional conduct. Surprisingly, I also noticed inconsistent “policies” applied differently to different individuals. In some cases, it felt like the rules changed depending on who you were. When leadership became aware that someone was related to another employee in the organization, it sometimes felt like that person was singled out or targeted rather than treated objectively. Overall, these practices—whether through inconsistent treatment, perceived power misuse, or favoritism—undermine trust, damage workplace culture, and raise serious concerns about fairness and professionalism.

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