design leadership out of touch - User Experience Designer OpenText Employee Review

2.0
Dec 21, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

big company with lots of opportunities to learn new things; friendly staff

Cons

managers and senior executives out of touch with larger strategy and how to help people in their careers; company of acquisitions means there is always politics fighting to get your product the attention it needs; hiring takes too long

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5.0
Jul 14, 2026
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Pros

Very Friendly workplace and good management

Cons

Communication could have been better

1.0
Jun 26, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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