OpenText reviews

- Nonsensical, outdated policies from C-level leadership including remote work. Everyone has to go back to the office in Jan. 2022, but exceptions will be made for newly hired "top talent" who want to be remote. At least now we know what they think of current employees! - Stingy. During the onset of COVID, some of my coworkers were unable to get a webcam which is pretty essential for remote work. It was chalked up to pandemic austerity. Fast-forward a year and after the best year in company history, not much has changed and the CEO toots his own horn while the majority get raises that -just- keep up with inflation. - CEO Mark B. best described as aloof, aggrandizing, and surrounded by sycophants. - Noncompetitive benefits for a tech company (.25% per 1% 401k match, up to a max of 1% with a 4-year vesting schedule) - Bureaucratic to the point of stifling innovation and lacking common sense. Policies are applied company-wide without thought to the effects on all teams, especially small ones. Additionally, my team has been attempting to increase headcount for over a year and a half now but apparently requisitions always gets stuck on the desk of some senior manager - it seems the C-level team wants to sign off on everything. This bureaucratic culture trickles down, making even the "COVID response team" totally ineffectual. They take 3 weeks to send out a general alert if an employee in your office has COVID. - Their website is a mess. My team had a broken, outdated webpage on the opentext domain for a substantial time. How TF does that happen at a self-professed tech company? The disorganized intranet isn't any better.

The CEO/CFO is aware of the issues raised here on GlassDoor, but openly states he ignores it. You are forced to schedule your vacation time at the beginning of the year, and you cannot carry it over. 401K is a joke. The CEO states, "OpenText is not a place to retire from." Very true. OpenText had their most profitable year ever with employees working remotely. Despite that, they want to force people back into the offices--excuse me, "centers of excellence"--as soon as possible. "We are better together" is yet another catch phrase to justify this. Workflows are convoluted. OpenText cares WAY more about processes than results. OpenText exists solely to acquire other companies. They acquire, rip out what made that company successful, and move on to the next. Once they've made what money they can from the product, get rid of it. They wonder why the talent runs for the door.