Pros
Pros: - Unlimited time off - Great health care - Great 401(k) matching - Awesome culture - Great management - Great tooling, systems, monitoring OH WAIT! These were the pros BEFORE my company got acquired by OpenText. My bad! None of that exists at OpenText. Pretty much take a good company, what its best practices are - do the COMPLETE opposite, and BAM! You now have OpenText. It is The OpenText Way™.
Cons
- Haphazard. Clunky. Discombobulated. Archaic. Confusing. Frustrating. Stressful. - I would not apply to work for this company directly. I had this misfortune of getting brought on as an acquisition. - There is no pride working for OpenText. I was extremely proud to work for my old company. The old company made me feel like part of a great culture. They actually cared, and it showed. - We lost unlimited time off. Went to 15 days per year. You do get holidays and a week off between Christmas and New Year's. It can be more generous than other companies, but when you've come from unlimited time off, it really is a bummer. - Couldn't take any vacation to go anywhere during COVID, but we got hounded to book vacation in advance anyway. - We had lower premiums and better coverage with our original company. We lost Cigna and went to United Health Care. It does not impress me. - We used to get 4% matching on the 401(k), which was OK. Now, OpenText says, "We'll match 25% of the first 4% of your contributions." THAT'S ONE PERCENT! - Culture is terrible. People are super high-strung. Everything is an emergency. - Project management is awful. - Upper management is CLUELESS and OUT OF TOUCH. - We have heard directly from the CEO, "I don't look at OpenText as a company to retire with." - The CEO says that "Companies who continue 100% remote work will die in the next 5 years." - Sent out a massive survey while we're all WFH due to COVID. Asks about continuing WFH. The response was overwhelming. Then we get gaslit saying "not many people want to WFH." Proceeds to bring in some quack doctor to tell us all, "WFH is not healthy" and rattles on about the dangers of "Zoom Fatigue." - We get told, "Best performance ever! So much revenue! Much wow!" since we started working from home. Now they want to change that. - It's infuriating that they say we'll be allowed "flexibility" to work from home up to two days per week, but not the other way around. "You can work from the office as much as you want to!" Gee, thanks oh most benevolent leaders. I love your Centers of Excellence. - This company is more loyal to its shareholders than anything else. I do feel like a number, I do feel undervalued. - Travel? Not as an engineer. Remote hands or bust. - Budget? Good luck with that. - Incident tracking and change management is horrendous. The change management tools and procedures alone are making a lot of people quit. It needs a serious revamp. - So much gets in the way of being able to actually do work. Multiple ticketing systems, internal tools are hot garbage. I'd like to see upper management play engineer for a month and see how hard it is to get anything done. - This company is a serial acquirer. It shows. There is no cohesive mission amongst the companies that got acquired, but all the engineers are expected to support the environments the same. It's super confusing. - They went on this big campaign to hire 700 virtual workers. But then they tell the people near their "Centers of Excellence" ('offices') that they're still going to have to commute to an office. Why can they accommodate 700 people to WFH and not bat an eye, but tell the office workers to get bent? Why the double standard? - Lots of attrition, and no end in sight on getting positions backfilled, or in getting extra manpower to help alleviate the skeleton crews. - THIS IS A FINANCIAL COMPANY MASQUERADING AS A SOFTWARE COMPANY. It's all about the bottom line. Don't let the talks of inclusion, diversity, engagement, organic growth, automation, etc. fool you. - If you wake up one morning to the sudden news of, "Congratulations! You've been bought by OpenText!" First, you need to look up who the heck OpenText is, and secondly - polish up that resume! Get out before Mark starts spouting hockey analogies.