OpenText reviews

3.2

51% would recommend to a friend

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Ayman Antoun

41% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

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3.0
Feb 22, 2016

Share Holder Value Focused Company / Not Customer or Employee

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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.

4.0
Feb 22, 2016

Sometimes its tough as a public company

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Pros

Work and life balance Employees care and want to do right for each other, the products and the customers. Nice offices. Largest Canadian software company Impressed with OpenText's Culture and values

Cons

At end of the day, the company and its decisions are driven by finance and spreadsheets. There is more financial wrangling than innovation. CEO is very hands on and can come across as micro managing and a bottleneck. A bit too low level involvement with , "I have an idea" versus defining the high level direction. Still a lot of fragmentation between products and product groups, although getting better.

5.0
Feb 11, 2016
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Pros

Friendly co workers and great leadership. The product was amazing as well. Good benefits and massages. There was lots of help and useful information flying around.

Cons

Sales process was a bit lengthy but ended well. Not too many flaws but lots of calling. There could of been more benefits like free lunch but other than that it was great.

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