Pros
I can't think of any
Cons
The company lives on acquisitions. It is starting to get a reputation like Computer Associates. The company acquires other companies and start to feed you the following lines: 1) We value the current employees of the acquired company 2) We do a lot of acquisitions so we are really good at it 3) We don't want to impact the business of the acquired company 4) We will match your current benefits 5) You will get access to other parts of the company for collaboration None of this is true. From day one Opentext has a list of employees who are targeted for layoffs; without even talking to those individuals to find out what they do or their skill set. They are not good at acquisitions from the being acquired perspective. Bad communication, no communication, and errors in most communications with an emphasis on HR related items. Opentext will totally impact the acquired company because of lacking communications, layoffs, lack of direction, etc. Their benefits are terrible. For example we used to have Kaiser HMO coverage available among other plans. They only offered one plan which was more expensive. Their 401k is bad as well; contributing very little. Other acquired company's software would have been a good compliment to Guidance's software but upper management never facilitated that interaction.
