Pros
- It pays a salary (albeit a low one). Decent pension scheme. - Parking available on-site. - Good experience for apprentices and graduates. - Staff canteen. - Some good colleagues (as well as the backstabbing ones).
Cons
- Bad work life balance. Meetings often start before 9am or after 5pm. - Working from home frowned on and rarely possible for managers. - Salaries for managers are well below market rates. - Little chance of any bonus and when you do get one it's paltry - 1 or 2%. - Stressful, 'hot house' atmosphere, blame culture prevalent. - Senior managers micromanage everything and make middle managers to do likewise. - Cost cutting everywhere, expenses scrutinised for every little detail. - Contract staff often in critical roles because CGI will not pay decent salaries for permanent people. - Few staff benefits: just a salary, pension and a share saving scheme that you have to pay for if you want it. - Insanely complicated internal processes. Heath Robinsonesque methods for accessing various applications and environments. - Reading office is old and not very clean. Insufficient and dirty toilets. Old, low quality desks and chairs.