Posted by lana
Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:25:33 GMT
Within CGI-AMS, the individual Business Unit’s (BU’s) management has the ultimate say on the employee’s promotion and salary increases. In other words, an employee does not have to play games with the HR in order to get promoted or get better salary increases. But the downside is, if the BU is not doing well financially, then nobody gets promoted and meager salary increases. So it is very important the you work in a BU that has growing sales and profits, otherwise it is time for you to look for a job. Promotions to directors and above needs corporate approval from Canada (!), again this should not be a problem if the business is growing. So the question one should be asking is “how is my BU doing?”
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Posted by spider_web
Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:35:29 GMT
I was with CGI-AMS for a long time and decided to quit recently. Hopefully this information will help others and future employees:
Even though CGI and AMS had merged more than two years back, nothing much had changed internally from AMS perspective. AMS is a strong System Integrator (SI) in the same league as Accenture, while CGI is strong on infrastructure outsourcing in the same league as EDS. Right there, you can see two contrasting operating styles; from business sense, it makes lot of sense to merge a System Integrator with an Outsourcing Provider.
I haven’t had much (rather any) exposure to the CGI part of business. I was doing pretty much the same SI work as I was doing four years back. So my experience outlined here is pretty much on the AMS side of the company, which seems to be radically different from the CGI side.
- AMS is best known for its culture and their flexible work schedules, which was not impacted by the CGI merger at all. This is the main reason myself (and many others) had stayed with them for a long time despite compelling offers from competing system integrators.
- AMS employees have high moral values and are also smart – I will have no trouble inviting co-workers for a family occasion or the thanks-giving dinner. AMS is known for their delivery managers and project managers.
- Most of their businesses were repeat business, which speaks volume about their employees and their quality of work.
- The overall salary package was in par with the industry, even tho...
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