Good to employees, good benefits, too bureaucratic. - Recensione dipendente - Software Developer presso CGI

4,0
10 mag 2017
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

I worked in the Glasgow office (Emergent Technologies). Great employer, flexitime, company shares scheme, pension, paid overtime, etc. Best of all, they're flexible about working from home, this is a great place to work if you have kids. If you don't have family, though, you can still WFH regularly too. Excellent place to improve your CV, their policy is to keep abreast of the latest technologies. If you're in between projects you're often tasked to investigate some new tool, language etc. which can be a lot of fun. They pay to send you on training courses too, and not the generic company-team-building PR stuff either, real courses on the specific area of technology you will be working on. Generally they leave you to it as well, they're Agile fans so you'll have daily stand-ups etc but there's no micro-managing. No blame culture either.

Svantaggi

The parent company, CGI, is massive and is as bureaucratic and resistant to change as all such big institutions are. They force a large amount of unnecessary (online) paperwork onto the Glasgow office, online training, internal CVs and skill matrices, etc. You can lose hours just trying to fulfil the latest barmy request and you'll never need any of it. Also as many of their customers are government agencies the amount of paperwork you may be required to do for a security clearance to start on a new project can be insane. Overtime is a rare thing (usually only at the end of a project) and is usually (but not automatically) paid, but you often don't get much notice (sometimes you find out the same day that you're expected to work overtime that evening). This is not common and there's usually some kind of compensation for it above the merely financial (e.g. WFH for a week instead of your normal 2 days) so it's by no means a major negative to working there. The Glasgow office is a massively open-plan layout, with typically over a hundred people in the office at any given time, so noise levels can be an issue. If you're on the autistic spectrum at all and open plan can make you uncomfortable, then this won't be a good working environment for you (it's *extremely* open plan). Also the Glasgow office is run by an extrovert who likes to find spurious reasons to have meetings, demonstrations, etc and likes his employees to do the same. If you have an introverted personality type you will feel at a disadvantage compared to your more extroverted counterparts when working here. The management are all good people, though, and you *can* talk to them about any issues you have.

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5,0
18 giu 2026
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Work life balance, growth, quality

Svantaggi

Less pay compared to market

1,0
16 giu 2026
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

no specific positives to highlight from my perspective

Svantaggi

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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