Sometimes its tough as a public company - Anonymous employee OpenText Employee Review

4.0
Feb 22, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Work and life balance Employees care and want to do right for each other, the products and the customers. Nice offices. Largest Canadian software company Impressed with OpenText's Culture and values

Cons

At end of the day, the company and its decisions are driven by finance and spreadsheets. There is more financial wrangling than innovation. CEO is very hands on and can come across as micro managing and a bottleneck. A bit too low level involvement with , "I have an idea" versus defining the high level direction. Still a lot of fragmentation between products and product groups, although getting better.

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Very Friendly workplace and good management

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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