Painfully Poor Pay and Advancement Opportunities - Java Developer CGI Employee Review

1.0
3 Jan 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible Work Life Balance Good social atmosphere with co-workers Good pension benefits

Cons

- Terrible Pay rises. They are practically none existent, if you get a job here, make sure the staring pay is high. You will have it for a long time. - No support for employees. Training is non existent, switching project can take over a year, and nobody listens to any employee asking to change their work. - Manager Politics. Half these managers aren't necessary. They seem to exist from a company hierarchy from the 1960s where someone needed to play the foreman and watch the brick layers for a living. Nevertheless they are the only means for employees to move project, advance, and get training. The manipulation they use on employees with these strings is mortifying. - Projects that don't advance your abilities or give you skills you can use elsewhere. - Generally poor benefits compared to other companies.

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5.0
20 Apr 2026
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Pros

Culture and work/life balance are what has kept me here

Cons

Benefits, salary could be better

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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