A shame to see the demise of a great company - Anonymous employee OpenText Employee Review

2.0
Jul 30, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

In the current environment that exists at the company, it is very hard to find anything positive to say.

Cons

Poor salaries, low morale, non-existent culture, disaffected staff, fragmented product stream, woeful marketing. It has been sad to witness the transformation of what was once a great company with wonderful values and a good, cohesive structure and culture to the organization that exists today. CEO wanting to sign off on every last little detail, management too scared to push back, weekly rounds of redundancies, flocks of great talent departing of their own accord. The field in complete disarray. The pretence that the company is still a Canadian-organization yet all the key executive roles are now in San Francisco.

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5.0
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Pros

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

Cons

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1.0
Jun 26, 2026
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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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