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CGI Group "Work Life Balance" Reviews
Updated 5 Apr, 2025
Overall Rating
4.0/5
based on 1k reviews
8% above industry's average
know moreRating Distribution
5
2.1k (43.5%)
4
1.5k (32.6%)
3
674 (14.2%)
2
180 (3.8%)
1
277 (5.8%)
Category Ratings
4.1
Job Security
4.1
Work-Life Balance
4.0
Company Culture
3.7
Skill Development
3.7
Work Satisfaction
3.4
Salary
3.2
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What employees say about CGI Group?
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Workplace insights
Hybrid
87% employees reported
Monday to Friday
88% employees reported
Flexible timing
80% employees reported
No travel
68% employees reported
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Gender based rating
4.0
Rated by Women
1.3k reviews
4.0
Rated by Men
3.2k reviews
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Likes: Shared purchase plans Dislikes: No recognition for your works
Show off people get promotions and appraisals
If you too too muc<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">h hard work also it's wasted
No upskills
Work life balance also very bad
No one recognise your </mark>efforts and work at the end of appraisal and ratings
Depends on thier mood they will change proje... Read More
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Great culture, Work life balance, Job security, Hybrid work culture (2 days from office) </mark>.
Overall great place to work.
Dislikes: Less salary increment
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Work life balance , job security</mark>.
Dislikes: Inside CGI , Especially TD Bank account , they are hiring developer for testing work . Be aware . These ratings are based on TD Bank client . No team for employee it is like single contributor i mean no one belongs to same team but good thing is everyone is there for helping .
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Work life balance
Job security
Skill development </mark>
Dislikes: Quality of work
Salary structure for existing employees
Promotion and growth options
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Work Life Balance
Flexible timings
Job security </mark>
Dislikes: They trusted only old employees what they are advising.
If you joined in the team they don't talk much with you regarding work.
Salary hike is also very less.
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Likes: 1<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">. Work life balance
2</mark>. Projects are interesting and good to work, if you are in development role.
3. Skill growth is good.
Dislikes: 1. Salary is low if compared to work you will be doing.
2. Teams are usually quite helpful but not very competitive. This sometimes breaks your growth graph.
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: manager are very bad, they treat like slave, specially manager: prabhavathi Dislikes: n<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">o manner in manager to talk with employee
no work life bakance
partiality between soth and north person
here </mark>hr are not the top layer of company, manager is eevrything, if they behave so you have nothing to do, either deal or leave 
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Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Work life balance is good along with good job security too unless you are on bench for too long period</mark>. Most people behave respectfully in the organization
Dislikes: They have CGI academia for upskilling however no opportunity to get into new projects as no manager entertains or contacts them when they are on bench. Also salary increment was max 3% last year, well below industry standards.
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
Likes: The worst work<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;"> environment i ever worked in my career no work life balance
Wheather ur sick u won't </mark>get sick leave if you take sick leave they will reduce ur score card so basically who work like donkey they will get promotions ijp
They Dislikes: The worst<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;"> environment i ever worked in my career no work life balance at all
Wheather ur sick </mark>u won't get leave if you take sick leave they will reduce your score card so basically who work like donkey they will get promotions ijp and work even when they are sick
And coming to job sec... Read More
Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Good work-life balance, good learnings, lot of things to learn, latest technology projects</mark>
Dislikes: Appraisal and promotion & Salary hikes are very less (1% - 4% )
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
Likes: Only 2 days to office
Dislikes: Below dislikes are respective the project and account I am into it<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">.
It has been just 2 months in CGI but now itself completely no work life balance
Minimum 11-12 hrs of work daily without any normal breaks (max 20mins break for lunch is taken) this includes pressure and stress as well
I Rejec... Read More
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: You will get a lot of work and hence a lot of new things to learn.
Dislikes: You will get a lot<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;"> of work that you wont have any work life balance and you will have to show </mark>proof even for a sick day off
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: Job security, They won't remove you from the project but will have to work in different shifts which is much stressful
Dislikes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">No hikes, No appraisals,
Poor work life balance</mark>
Work Details
Work days: Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Just the work life balance is good, apart from this no other benefits </mark>
Dislikes: They don't appreciate the members who work hard, don't have any hikes or promotions
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Company ethics and policies are good
Work life balance is good for women</mark>
Dislikes: Internal politics are more in management
Don't listen to member concerns
If member does not adhere to their words, they will screw the member.
Promotions and appraisal are given to their own favourite people
No onsite positions even though you have been with comany for couple of decades
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Share purchase plan
Work life balance
Work from home 2 times a week
</mark>
Dislikes: For emerging technology like AEM blockchain generative AI this company is not recommended.
50% of employees are staying here since more than 10 years they don't value the new tech. Only thing they care about revenue. Don't want to hire new resources on emerging technology. In entire APAC region they didn't have a single aem architect... Read More
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">work life balance </mark> Dislikes: - Not good for Entry to senior leadership roles and Architects especially if you are someone passionate on latest technologies, they don't have innovation/very tiny , so almost NO scope for sandboxes. therefore don't expect use of latest technologies unless you are exceptionally placed into some special teams.
- This is an organiza... Read More
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Work life balance is very good no pressure</mark>.
Dislikes: Sometimes there is no job assurance for freshers they fired fresher within a month due to lack of projects.
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Good work life balance, Decent package with company shares allotment</mark>. Overall feels satisfactory.
Dislikes: My immediate reporting manager tried to extend my notice period without my awareness, just because of client request. Later escalated this to HR and sorted. Not sure about other projects, in my project - Hike and Promotion is not based on performance or fullfilling our goal setting.
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Likes: <mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">Work life balance is good</mark>. Team-mates are collaborative and supportive.
They provide health insurance up to 4 lakhs for the employee and his/her family. They also have option to top-up the insurance with additional premium. They also have option to add parents in the health insurance.
Dislikes: I was assigned to a bad project where my skill-set was not aligned. In the project they were neither using Spring nor Angular / React. They were using some legacy UI tool called Liss-tool.
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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