Full of politics - Manager OpenText Employee Review

3.0
Jul 9, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good place to learn how to swim in a Shark tank

Cons

Too much politics, different products should be sold to one Customer with conflicting targets. If you speak up, Managament don't want to listen. All is driven by cutting costs to make balance sheet looking good. If a manager takes on a critical item, very often he/she gets promoted to a position with higher salary, less influence or get fired. Well, some of them have to pay mortgage, a car or two or other funny things. Making Barrenechea to CEO of the year was the best sarcasm joke ever. He has destroyed so many private life's, this will last for seven ore eight CEO's lifetimes. Or he's paid by competitors to kill Opentext.

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5.0
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Pros

Very Friendly workplace and good management

Cons

Communication could have been better

1.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

You get a paycheck. Some of the people are nice but don’t trust anyone.

Cons

Exec leadership is awful. Always putting out the positive party line but it is all lies. Products are so far behind competitors. No investment in product or marketing. Senior executive leadership team shuffles around their “good old boy” comrades to new roles instead of retiring them or holding them accountable. The internal politics with everyone back stabbing each other to manage up and keep their jobs. Leadership is just doing what the board chair tells them to do. It is all about self promotion vs doing the job. They like to blame the previous CEO but he has been gone a year and it has only gotten worse. OpenText likes to brand itself as top company to work for , I say STAY AWAY!

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