Unprofessional, incompetent and strangled by internal processes - IT Systems Architect CGI Employee Review

1.0
Dec 8, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The car park is free. You can get training but have to justify it and ask.

Cons

Once you get in the door, you will discover that you need to interview for any project work. The promotion process also involves a promotion panel. Getting a promotion however is not necessarily a reason to celebrate as they will likely use it as an opportunity to get you to sign new terms and conditions. Pay is very, very bad for technical staff. They don't seem to recognise that as an IT company they need people good at IT. Instead they focus on business people. As for pay-rises, they seem to think that they can shoe-horn people into a normalisation curve which makes any pay-rise a lottery. You could get recommended for promotion but marked as "needs development" for your annual review. Of course even getting "exceeds all performance" will not guarantee a pay increase. You are still at the mercy of the stats. Finally they have imposed a sickness absence policy that ignores significant health issues. You have only 20 days budget to be ill no matter what the cause. If you break a bone and take 15 days off, you only have 5 days for colds for the rest of the year. Exceed that and you will lose pay. Staff are leaving in droves right now so there is a significant brain drain, including people who have been there 10 or more years.

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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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