OpenText reviews

Too many to count. OpenText seems to be a company that gobbles up successful companies and then squeezes the profits out of them. As teammates quit, OT will replace people with teams based in India to simply maintain applications so they can continue to squeeze money out of them until they eventually shut an app down and move onto the next one. Further complaints of this company: * The worst healthcare options in tech * Virtually no salary or career progression * New hires will be paid more than the managers who are backfilling positions * The worst tech support possible * Literal years between any personal device upgrades * Red tape in every direction * An activist CEO who has no clue what actually happens in the companies OT gobbles up. * Poor mid-level leadership in general

Corporate decisions often come without much explanation or forewarning. Many coworkers were laid off when COVID was projected to affect profits and these coworkers were picked seemingly without consultation of their managers or anyone that works directly with them. Our office lost a legacy system veteran with almost a decade of experience and knowledge before he was done fully training a new hire to replace him. Many new hires were laid off within months of their start dates, some of which were very promising and well performing. Salaries in more remote offices are as low as they can get away with while still getting skilled applicants. They don't pay what you think you're worth, they pay what they think you'll settle for. While this makes sense from a short-term profit standpoint, when hiring for high skill positions, I think providing high salaries makes employees less stressed, more productive, more likely to put in extra effort, and take more pride in their work and the company they represent. You can't perform maximally when you're paid minimally and you're constantly debating whether or not you should take that other job that pays $2k less a year and requires half the work and stress. You don't want your employees wondering whether the stress of the job is worth the pay. It hurts morale. Like most jobs, the benefits are merely par for the course. If you want a luxury insurance plan, you won't find it here. You don't end up homeless if you need to go to the ER, but you won't be eating take out for a few months.