Decent place to work to gain experience - Technical Analyst OpenText Employee Review

3.0
Apr 18, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits and work/life balance. Great job to start out in Technical Support. Lots of US State Department and Canadian Government customers to work with, and hone your technical skills with.

Cons

As others have noted obvious boys club(s) and excessive layers of management have created a top heavy culture in which people want to leave in droves. Product development and marketing department have no knowledge of how to launch a net new product or do proper competitive analysis or market research to determine if a product will be successful.

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Pros

Very Friendly workplace and good management

Cons

Communication could have been better

2.0
Jul 17, 2026
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Pros

While they claim to be "pro-employee" they are very much pro-Canadian employee. As long as you are a Canadian, your job should be safe. And US based role is in jeopardy.

Cons

Laying off all Americans. I do not see relevant data on location based statistics for the last 4 rounds of layoffs. The bulk of the "trimming" has been based in US. This is cost savings. Additionally, they post US based jobs for 24 hours then pull those and post H1B notifications that they could not find equivalent US resources and need to outsource for cheaper money.

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