Total mess. - Sales OpenText Employee Review

2.0
Sep 5, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company has lots of cash, so probably won't go out of business.

Cons

Nothing is real. Feels like working for a front company. Most good people have left the company because nobody has any confidence in the executive leadership team. It's chaos at the top and chaos on the street. Very little excitement in the product portfolio and the idea that it's a "Best Place to Work" is a total joke to the employees. Most are disengaged and just happy to collect a paycheque. Has a lot to do with a highly unpredictable control freak at the top. Good people are totally disempowered, compensation is low, targets are unachievable and everyone wastes huge amounts of energy just trying to figure out WTF they are supposed to be doing - which seems to change on a weekly basis. Company has changed its strategic go-to-market messaging 3 times this year! Nobody believes anything management says anymore.

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Pros

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Cons

Laying off all Americans. I do not see relevant data on location based statistics for the last 4 rounds of layoffs. The bulk of the "trimming" has been based in US. This is cost savings. Additionally, they post US based jobs for 24 hours then pull those and post H1B notifications that they could not find equivalent US resources and need to outsource for cheaper money.

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