The emperor has no clothes - Anonymous employee OpenText Employee Review

1.0
Feb 4, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some very hard working and talented employees at grass roots level who are trying to do their job with integrity against all odds.

Cons

A CEO who will be the end of OpenText, destroying the company one bad decision at a time. He is a micromanager and needs to control every aspect of the business and refuses to empower managers to make even the most basic of decisions. Instead he has surrounded himself with an ELT made up of people that just nod and follow even the most nonsensical orders.

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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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