CGI Group "Work Life Balance" Reviews

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Share purchase plan Work life balance Work from home 2 times a week

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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. They make it hybrid because they don't have enough space to hold 50 percent of Bangalore employees....Read More

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

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work life balance

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- 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 organization with very low scope internal movements. - Extreme legacy, Most of the leaders are in-house grown , have been there since decades / have rejoined, i have noticed them too low on accepting new things , there were cases where staff members were referred by senior leaders and PM had to just take them. - Operating model ; Onshore so called Prime BU and Offshore model. Don't be surprised if you end up working with internal people only without facing client. - Members Surveys (MSAP) : This is just crazy they have something called member satisfaction assessment program , which is a survey by all employees against their management, which is again crazy i have noticed many mangers(including Managers, directors and above) calling their immediate associates and asking their subordinates to "rate them well" as soon as survey is launched. Not sure what is the purpose of MSAP if this is case ? - Org hierarchy : They have 2 streams of hierarchy beginning entry level to senior leadership teams. one stream is delivery another stream is experts: Delivery stream is responsible to executing delivery related activities , expert is technical , in my exp almost none of delivery stream people knows most fundas, they don't even understand the Job description. Most of the technical directors and VP's and managers " prefers to work in isolation" . The "next" level managers most of the times are only supportive to their immediate reporting manager. - This is the only company i have seen where one of the member was awarded for highest learning hours and whilst on bench and this was considered as one of the point to deploy them into a project and the person is someone who was referred by one of the VP , on the ground most of team members had concerns it seems. - No proper engagements in Centre of Excellence teams - Delivery tech staff : This is no different than most of the IT MNC's where majority of the freshers are deployed to handle projects without adequate training. For a question one of the senior manager asked the response from senior leader was "respective reporting manager should sit along with freshers on the project and train them " and that never happens. - Insurance : Not up to mark - Governance: Better systems and automation is still possible....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Work life balance is very good no pressure.

Dislikes

Sometimes there is no job assurance for freshers they fired fresher within a month due to lack of projects.

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Good work life balance, Decent package with company shares allotment. Overall feels satisfactory.

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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 policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Work life balance is good. 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 policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Work life balance and company culture is good. There is MSAP tool raise a complaint against managers and above.

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Nothing, no words I have for negative

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

One good thing in CGI is job security and work life balance

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Top level manangment behave like cheaters .I worked total 6 years .Last year I got an offer of 28 LPA ,I put down my papaers ,later CGI agreed to offer 26L .So withdeawn my papers .After withdrawn they made it 22.65 L and they told market situvation is not good.The heigher manangment grown by eating others compensations

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Company values, reputation

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You won't feel like working for an IT company rather you will feel like you are working for a Marketing company. Always there will be pressure to complete the things, they won't consider the work life balance, 12 hours a day you need to work 365days in a year. Most of the people working in CGI are 10+years in same company so they don't respect you, they don't have any work culture. You words will not be heard, whatever they say you have to listen and complete the work at any cost....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Work life balance is peace and supportive environment and get more opportunities to grow and up skill on advanced technologies.

Dislikes

Salary hikes on appriasal and giving less hike but apart from salary hike everything is too good in CGI.

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

It is a decent company to start my career. I will get enough time to learn new skills so utilizefree time and move ahead . Overall work life balance and all the amenities like an indian MNC,s . CGI company is really good opportunity .

Dislikes

No deslike that company

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

Job security Free Gym Great Tax Benefits Work life balance Free dinner

Dislikes

Less Salary and hike Very less niche technology projects No proper recognition and awards No cons

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.