OpenText reviews

3.2

51% would recommend to a friend

(5,641 total reviews)
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Ayman Antoun

41% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

OpenText has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 5,641 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The OpenText employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
1.0
Sep 19, 2014

One big Ponzi scheme

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Exec leadership team seems very optimistic. Company has a "soul" because they haven't laid off 18,000 people (all at once), nor have they shot down an airliner. This cash cow had higher net profit than Amazon.

Cons

Survival of the company is predicated solely on repeated acquisitions. Organic growth is not an option, either because management doesn't care or doesn't know how. Cycle goes: Acquire company, lay off as much staff as possible, write off whatever they can, collect legacy revenues, report record growth, then when revenues start to decline (which they will when you don't support and grow with your existing customers), do another acquisition. Employee culture is one of "the walking dead". Everyone is a survivor of a previous acquisition and operates under the specter of being laid off at any time. There is no motivation to excel, only fear. Everyone knows they are expendable and therefore allow themselves to be overworked. Human capital has become human cattle. Absolutely appalling level of micromanagement by CEO, which is understandable when you manage a house of cards like OpenText. No resources expended in either truly integrating all the acquisitions, or in developing a talented employee base.

3.0
Sep 18, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Working from is great but that means lots of travel. The work changes often so there are constant new challenges; you never get comfortable and feel you can stay there. That can be either bad or good depending on your personality. Get to work with some really great people across the globe. Most colleagues are smart, competent, fun and engaged. Most everyone has a entrepreneurial attitude.

Cons

Never comfortable with employment status. Too many other companies purchased causes duplication of roles. Lack of quality communication causes uneasiness.

3.0
Sep 17, 2014

The next Oracle?

Recommend
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Pros

Very growth-hungry organsation, with a good corporate message and very focussed marketing - a company that knows where it is going and wants to get there in a hurry

Cons

The pace of acquisitions tends to create a organisational confusion about who does what, and lack of coherence between teams from different acquired organisations

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