Scotland/Glasgow - IT Staff - stay away - Anonymous employee CGI Employee Review

1.0
Mar 25, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

* Central location. * A consultancy that has a base office for developers.

Cons

90+ Developers have resigned over the last 14 months (20 in the last 10 weeks) from Glasgow's two delivery centers (ODSC, Java Development Center) leaving 18 staff total. 1) Salary - average 35-50% below industry average across all levels. 2) Bonuses are denied by moving financial targets. 3) Offices are jokingly referred to as "dystopian looking" 4) 2 Senior VPs purposefully sabotaging the departments, bullying staff at all levels (5/8 senior staff were off with stress during 1 month). 5) Unsanitary working conditions (thick dust on desks and hair balls on carpets) and utilitarian with (literally) no storage. 6) Offices are never large enough for all the staff (staff work full time in the kitchen). Plants are not allowed in CGI offices as they are "unhygienic". 7) You may be told to "bring devices from home" to meet contract requirements. 8) Project mangers routinely out-number developers due to corporate bureaucracy and standard billing practices: a recent project had 1 Developer and 8 PMs. 9) You are expected to work on new I.P. in your spare time - unpaid, with no rewards for projects that lead to business. VPs have refused any action being taken on the above, despite 4+ years worth of reports/complaints/requests for assistance.

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Cons

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2.0
May 7, 2026
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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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