OpenText reviews

Horrific top-down company. EVPs/SVPs are toothless. Everything has to be approved by the CEO/CTO, who is an extremely self-centered megalomaniac. The sales comp plan was whittled down to a quasi-company bonus program. Every sales oriented professional is probably polishing up their resume as I type this. Layoffs are a regular occurrence. Product strategy is non-existent. This 3rd tier software company with a portfolio centered around document management tried absorbing a company of the same size with a highly diverse portfolio, and failed miserably. Stay away. When they lay you off, expect to be cheated out of you already miserable severance.

I was part of the Dell EMC ECD acquisition. It has been a horrible experience. 1. Open Text lies. When the acquisition was announced, Open Text stated that everyone would receive an offer letter. Well, many people did not receive an offer letter. None of the senior management were offered a position. Even worse, many people who accepted the offer were let go within 1 week of the acquisition close date, leaving them with a worse severance package and less lead time to find a job. 2. Nickel and Dimers. They created un-achievable goals to avoid paying variable compensation. Many of my colleagues are effectively getting a 20% pay cut. 3. Benefits are substandard and they make it impossible to calculate or understand. 4. Poor vision and leadership. Absolutely no integration plan even after 6 months. 5. Open Text Employees are still treating us like the competition. They only want to hire and sell Open Text.