Hustle culture and poor benefits - Software Developer CGI Employee Review

2.0
Dec 30, 2025
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Pros

Pay is a bit higher than the local industry average. Some of the managers are great and care about their employees.

Cons

Benefits are mediocre at best. High deductible health plan, vision is not accepted many places, dental is fine. The PTO policy is wack, it takes 3 years to get an extra week of vacation, then 20 years to get your next vacation increase. The only good part of their benefits package is the unlimited sick leave, but most people don't use this due to the overall hustle culture. A lot of the people that "excel" at CGI will work while laid up in their bed if they're able to physically do so, which is not conducive to a healthy and sustainable work environment. They give only the bare minimum holidays off, and the clients give significantly more to their own employees, so you're either working while half of your team is given the day off or you're using your meager floating holidays or limited PTO days to take the day off with them. Leadership has explicitly said they do not believe in a work life balance. In order to get a promotion or anything more than "meets expectations" you have to do work outside of your billable client work, and it's a toss up on if you can bill admin for any of this work, so it's often unpaid work.

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Pros

They provided unlimited sick days

Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Employees are referred to as "members" and I feel like it is more than lip service. I genuinely believe the company is concerned about its employees. I had many conversations with my manager about the direction I wanted my career to go and how to work towards that goal.

Cons

In the Pittsburgh market they are overly reliant on just a couple of clients and when one of those clients lessens their demand it has an impact. I was laid off under these exact circumstances. When you join you are required to sign a non-compete that doesn't distinguish between you quitting and you being laid off. When they laid me off I was blocked from returning to their client as an employee for an entire year even though I was not the one who initiated my departure.

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