CGI dead end - Senior Consultant CGI Employee Review

2.0
Apr 27, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good place for IT entry-mid levels. CGI does pay fairly for IT jobs, however raise are between 3-5 percent yearly. Carreer opprtunities are far apart and unless you are in a leadership role you will go unnoticed for promotions, you might as well get a new contract or job for CGI and then you will get a promotion. Take the CGI job if you want to have experience and learn about different companies around Europe. CGI is split inot several regional units and jumping from one another is not easy. Effectively if you want to transfer from North America to Europe, will be quitting your job and hired again.

Cons

No real opportunity to get too far ahead Carreer opprtunities are far apart and unless you are in a leadership role you will go unnoticed for promotions, you might as well get a new contract or job for CGI and then you will get a promotion. Take the CGI job if you want to have experience and learn about different companies around Europe. CGI is split inot several regional units and jumping from one another is not easy. Effectively if you want to transfer from North America to Europe, will be quitting your job and hired again. Good luck on that.

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Cons

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2.0
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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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