Vantaggi
- The people are kind and friendly, particularly my line manager. - Think there was a good pension but I don't remember what, exactly. - Share scheme. If you spend 3% of your salary on shares through salary sacrifice, CGI will match this. And if you wanted, you could just sell those shares immediately, gaining 3%.
Svantaggi
- Nothing to do. I had 2 job offers. At my previous employer, I had the same problem and was made redundant which I found incredibly stressful. I chose CGI because they convinced me this wouldn't happen here. I was told I'd be working for a client in roughly 2 weeks after starting. 3 months later, I still had no client, so I resigned after only 3 months and went to work for the company I had turned down 3 months earlier. Feel like I was lied to by the recruiter who told me I'd have work within 2 weeks. I was told by my manager that the recruiter should not have told me this. - The job board. Most consultancies that I have worked for will arrange a client for you. At CGI, you have to go onto a job board and apply for those jobs yourself. If you are without a job for a long time, you become at risk of redundancy. However I was told there are ways around this (e.g. if you are coming to the end of that time period, you can sign up for a certification training and that resets the clock). For me, this defeats the purpose of working for a consultancy. I may as well apply for these jobs myself outside of CGI and be paid more as a consultant.