Be very careful and do your research before joining - Vice President OpenText Employee Review

2.0
Apr 5, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Big company with an easy pace of work. Open to remote employees. Decent benefits. Nice place to be if you have no other job options

Cons

Regardless of what you hear, this is a 21st century Computer Associates where old software goes to be acquired and quietly die in peace. Maybe different in Canada but there's no real innovation and the company is a mish-mash of cultures and acquired products that are milked for maintenance in India. Even by Valley ego standards, this CEO is atrocious which would be OK if he were Jobs or Ellison or Musk. He loves the sound of his voice so much that he will sit in any meeting and tell anybody rudely - engineer, accountant, sales, janitor - how to do his/her job. By the way I think he comes from Computer Associates. Surprise! The only people who stay are meek butt-kissers and that's never good for a business. I ignored warnings and Glassdoor reviews thinking they were written by disgruntled people from fat acquired companies who got fired. Sadly I was wrong and I am back actively talking to recruiters to get out. There are plenty of good, innovative software companies out there. Do your research and you'll run, not walk away to one of them.

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5.0
Apr 5, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly management, no hierarchy management , support for employees during sick

Cons

Kind of Still old rules for management

1.0
Jun 26, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get a paycheck. Some of the people are nice but don’t trust anyone.

Cons

Exec leadership is awful. Always putting out the positive party line but it is all lies. Products are so far behind competitors. No investment in product or marketing. Senior executive leadership team shuffles around their “good old boy” comrades to new roles instead of retiring them or holding them accountable. The internal politics with everyone back stabbing each other to manage up and keep their jobs. Leadership is just doing what the board chair tells them to do. It is all about self promotion vs doing the job. They like to blame the previous CEO but he has been gone a year and it has only gotten worse. OpenText likes to brand itself as top company to work for , I say STAY AWAY!

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