A once great company - Now terrible - Software Engineer OpenText Employee Review

1.0
Jul 20, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Still many good people, including clever people who could create great software given the chance.

Cons

Constant distrust and fear. A culture of bullying. A lack of integrity and values. All that matters to most managers is trying to avoid the wrath of upper management, by instead telling them what they want to hear and manipulating statistics. A culture of lies and dishonesty. No one believes what we hear from above nor the statistics we produce ourselves. Repeated aggressive take-overs of other companies, followed by layoffs (since I am considered a "top performer" I am never affected, but many great colleagues have been):

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Cons

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4.0
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