Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at CGI with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 59% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 31 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at CGI overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at CGI as a Senior Software Engineer according to 31 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 30%
Skills test: 23%
Phone interview: 17%
Background check: 8%
Personality test: 5%
Presentation: 5%
Group panel interview: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Drug test: 3%
Other: 2%
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Three rounds L1 basic interview questions
L2 client round again most about your current project
L3 manager and HR about your work process and how you handle the team and how your current team work
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about the though item you resolved and why it is tough
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at CGI (Bengaluru) in Feb 2026
Interview
This was a role for the Nodejs and AWS. Total two technical round. L1 was about projects and some basic JS questions and one coding question. L2 was more focussed on the Node basics and some aws related questions and one coding problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What does libuv do, some basic concepts differences
I applied online. I interviewed at CGI (Halifax, NS) in Nov 2025
Interview
Easy process. First screening round with the recruiter. then second round was technical assessment which was based on different topics like Java, Spring boot, kafka, test automation, SQL etc. and coding question as well.
then third round was a technical round.Most questions ask were based on resume and the follow up questions from your answers.