Disorganized with Lack of Leadership - Senior Consultant CGI Employee Review

1.0
2 Jan 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Competitive Pay -Multiple Investment options within Benefits

Cons

Within the Salesforce sector, it's clear this company has little clue about how a project is properly organized and run. The lack of technical strategy and organization has led to the team sometimes working extended days on a 8 hr+ long video call meeting. Many meetings consist of deflection of responsibility, team members sitting on mute when asked to give feedback/thoughts and after many months, there's still many factors of the project that are unclear about who is supposed to be doing what. Upper management will only reach out to you if they are feeling pressure from their higher ups to maintain velocity on progress and will randomly pop into meetings, yet not pay attention. Onboarding for the project to which I was added to wasn't provided, and several technical/project leads seemed mentally checked out after constant pushback and disorganization from leadership. Communication at this company is poor and a lot of the current work is done in silos and large segments of work are bottlenecked to 1-2 people, which make for fragile understanding of the technical implementation across the team. The processes involved with getting work completed is overcomplicated with too many steps and handoffs between teammates with different skillsets, and at times utterly backward from any project I have been a part of previously. During meetings there is no feeling of unity or engagement from my peers...This company is sucking my passion for Salesforce dry.

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5.0
27 Apr 2026
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Pros

Great leadership Understanding of work/life balance

Cons

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2.0
7 May 2026
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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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