Share Holder Value Focused Company / Not Customer or Employee - Anonymous employee OpenText Employee Review

3.0
Feb 22, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Steady work and management leaves you alone as long as the customer is happy and projects are on schedule and under budget. Lots of opportunities if you seek them out and network. Lots of great in-the-ditches / behind-the scenes employees keeping the services running that are largely way over-shadowed by vocal sometimes pompous Marketing and Sales driven management.

Cons

Sales over-sells and over promises to make sales numbers. Employees / every-day workers have to clean up ill conceived contracts to make-it-happen. Company is 75% Share-holder Value focused 20 % Customer Focused and 5 % Employee focused. Open Text is clearly a different corporate culture than GXS and probably other acquisitions. Sr Management is mainly focused on Growth and More Growth and therefore changes and probably layoffs for some who can't adapt.

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5.0
Jul 14, 2026
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Very Friendly workplace and good management

Cons

Communication could have been better

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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