Meh - Manager OpenText Employee Review

2.0
Feb 19, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent work life balance. Company shut down over Christmas is nice. If you're the kind of person who just wants to keep his/her head down and do his/her job, this is an OK place. Some very good people in senior leadership positions.

Cons

Typical big company. Nothing gets done quickly. Ridiculously centralized top-down decision making. Annual merit increases are laughable, less than the increases in cost of living. So effectively you're making less money the longer you work there. A lot of lip service about caring for the employees but not much to back it up. All their growth is from acquisition so it's a mish mash of technology, most of it old.

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Cons

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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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