Atrocious management - Project Manager CGI Employee Review

2.0
13 Apr 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flex work hours. Also, if you want to hide and browse the internet for most of your day, this is the place you've been looking for.

Cons

Like most service firm I worked for, also CGI is being destroyed by a myopic, unqualified management team who gets into their role mostly our of seniority and corridor chats. Believe me, I am not exaggerating. As anyone working in the Montreal offices, you will get this consistent opinion. Morale is so low among employees that anyone with a self-confidence level above zero is applying to jobs in other companies. I know very well 2 recruiters who both told me they regularly approach CGI employees found on Linkedin "because they all want to leave..". I am not surprised. This also creates a huge problem of knowledge loss. People leave, replacement takes months (if a replacement indeed is arranged: sometimes someone else is asked to absorb also the load of the departed employee, with the obvious frustration that this implies), knowledge transfer just does not happen. The recent waves of expense cuts to offset declining revenues (since the company is losing one by one all its main clients: Desjardins, Bell, others to follow soon) have not affected the areas in which the company is lacking the most: process streamlining (simplification). The current management is so unqualified that is generally unable to identify (not to mention measure) the incredible waste that every employee can witness in reason of the very bureaucratic way the company works. I thought I saw the bottom when working at Bell, now I see the new low benchmark is CGI. I would not suggest an experience in this company to anyone other than a long-time unemployed worker who has basically no better chance.

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Cons

I worked at CGI in both India and the USA and observed similar workplace culture concerns across both locations. The only real difference was HR—India HR felt more supportive, while my experience with USA HR was disappointing. My employment ended shortly after maternity leave due to an alleged “lack of projects,” which I experienced as a layoff. I also observed what appeared to be misuse of position by some leaders, including blurred professional boundaries, preferential treatment, and expectations that went beyond normal workplace roles—at times resembling personal-assistant-style demands rather than professional conduct. Surprisingly, I also noticed inconsistent “policies” applied differently to different individuals. In some cases, it felt like the rules changed depending on who you were. When leadership became aware that someone was related to another employee in the organization, it sometimes felt like that person was singled out or targeted rather than treated objectively. Overall, these practices—whether through inconsistent treatment, perceived power misuse, or favoritism—undermine trust, damage workplace culture, and raise serious concerns about fairness and professionalism.

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