Third-rate software company that could have been so much better - Anonymous employee OpenText Employee Review

2.0
Oct 19, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible about working hours so I could sometimes work at home, but this is at the discretion of your team-leader/manager. I have a great team-leader. Free coffee. There are a couple of Tassimo brewers if you know where to look.

Cons

Lack of co-operation between teams. Some team leaders don't care about quality, just deadlines. Next to impossible to get anything innovative done. Senior management seems completely ignorant of what really goes on at a grass roots level in the company. Its as they work for an entirely different OpenText than the rest of us. Clueless. A mire of bureaucracy. Most of the administrivia that employees have to deal with is confusing, frustrating, and slow. Ridiculous internal structure. People in one part of the company jet around the world doing this and that, and yet there is "no budget" to ship a small but essential piece of equipment from one office to another.

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5.0
Apr 5, 2026
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Pros

Friendly management, no hierarchy management , support for employees during sick

Cons

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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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