OpenText reviews

3.2

51% would recommend to a friend

(5,643 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 5,643 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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2.0
Apr 18, 2023

Acquisition Company Only

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Pros

Great teams with lots of talent.

Cons

We were an acquired company by OT. Outside of the expected employment trimming, they started to cut everything else. 1st it was our monitors, if you had 2 you had to return 1 so they can donate it to another acquired company. Most devs need 2 monitor to work if not 3. Then the bonuses were cut. To top it off was countless hands on meetings where the CEO would rattle his woke ideology and what ever new woke trend of the month he thought was important. If you were acquired, they will just strip out the IP and kill any other technologies that are in the works. This is a public traded company and the management handles it so with everything pointing to bottom lines, outside investment and more acquiring. Organic growth is a far dream.

2.0
Mar 16, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Basic benefits are fairly standard, and many of the company's acquisitions are good teams to work for. Hybrid work is good for some employees, depending on position.

Cons

My company was absorbed by OpenText and their management style, corporate processes, and other changes have been uniformly bad for our team. Their stagnant wages and refusal to pay competitively drove away our best managers and most of our technical talent, their internal IT makes it impossible to address even the simplest issues in a timely fashion (or at all), and the shift to hybrid work from fully remote was unnecessary and bad for many of the teams it affected. Their benefits package, being centered around United Healthcare, is also extremely difficult to get more than the most basic services paid through. OpenText also is severely bogged down by poor upper-middle management that takes an extraordinarily long time to accomplish anything. The poor agility of the company often results in major issues being ignored for years at a time out of disinterest in addressing them. Additionally in our team's specific case, the product support team we work with has been systematically sabotaged in a way that seems targeted at reducing cost by pushing our best talent away and terminating employees for highly spurious reasons that only barely meet the definition of "for-cause." And finally, getting briefly more personal in my experience, my newly-appointed direct manager explicitly told me I would not be receiving any cost-of-living wage increase no matter how well I performed, simply because the company does not provide appropriate pay increases as a matter of policy except to a maximum of one or two people per team.

1.0
Nov 17, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Outdated technology, products, services, people management, and human resources. Most of the deals are sold through sugar-coating rarely providing any concrete value. Customers are tricked into buying expensive software that rarely works. Then have to struggle their way through horrendous customer support where employees are heavily micromanaged, underpaid and overworked

Cons

You will have no future if you invest years in becoming an expert in their products, they will trick you into believing products are cutting edge with slick demos and presentations just like they do with their customers

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