Good people, Good Products, Poor Management - Anonymous employee OpenText Employee Review

2.0
Sep 29, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-- Good people in the field that truly want to help each other and do the right things for their customers. -- OT is an acquisition driven company and has inherited good solutions from many of the organizations that they acquired. -- Depth and breadth of software suite can be a differentiator in a sales cycle

Cons

-- Mis-management of acquired companies - OT typically retains the product but underestimates the value of the people so deep, long-term knowledge of the solution set and client base walk out the door -- Executive / Upper Management make spreadsheet decisions without assessing / understanding the impact on the employee base -- Field management not empowered -- With leadership changes in the last 2 years, OT has a heavily CA-influenced culture -- A lot of talk about strong culture and values, being the best place to work, etc. -- but actions don't back this up (e.g., surveys sent to employees but then nothing comes of the results) -- Sales and Presales turn over has made it difficult to build and sustain momentum

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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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