.Befuddled by too many acquisitions too fast, cronyism and geographic dispersion - Senior Technical Consultant OpenText Employee Review

2.0
Dec 24, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Immediate management are thoughtful and considerate. Reasonable salary and benefits. Flexible working conditions and hours (to some extent). Considerate of life outside of work.

Cons

Senior management has absolutely no regard for the many years experience the staff of their acquisitions have. They toss them aside without thought and needlessly waste valuable assets. No one in our local office has enough understanding of what is happening strategically in the rest of the company other than boilerplate emails. There is little or no chance to ask serious questions of management. Goals seem to constantly be shifting negating much hard work already done. Senior management has brought in an excessive number of buddies from previous roles that don't have a clue about our core business.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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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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