Unrealized potential to be a great company - Anonymous employee OpenText Employee Review

2.0
Sep 29, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great people, great technology solutions.

Cons

Frustrating environment with limited management autonomy. Product strategy pivots happen too frequently. Acquisition ROI seems primarily to be maintenance renewal driven. Not a lot of product innovation after an acquisition has happened. No, or minimal value, placed on individual employees. It's a numbers game and the annual July RIFs are painful.

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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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