Top executives (CEO and head of global field operations) filling positions of senior leadership with cronies from outside the firm. Old boys club at the top. - Sales Director OpenText Employee Review

1.0
Dec 12, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Remote work environment. Competent colleagues. Travel restrictions. Can't think of any more.

Cons

Sales micro management coming from the top and at all levels. This results in focusing on the wrong things and kills the entrepreneurial spirit. No career growth at all levels, even for top performers. Backstabbing. Ivory tower mentality. No relationship between top senior level executives and middle management / field.

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5.0
Apr 5, 2026
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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
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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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