OpenText reviews

- the sales culture is devolving into something you would see in a movie. You have to be buddies with the sales leadership to succeed, highly political, witch hunts for those that aren't part of the "club". - "motivation by movie clip" where playing clips of sports or war movies should somehow translate to a message in software sales toughness. Apparently everyone just needs more motivation to be carnivorous soldiers fighting their way through....customers? - calendar audit anyone? Apparently if it doesn't exist in Outlook, you weren't working at all. You couldn't possibly be sending emails, making phone calls or otherwise be working if you didn't make an appointment in outlook to do so. - most of the real talent on the sales side is leaving, actively looking to leave, or has recently left. Some key losses in sales management are concerning to customers and field sales. Replacement hires are almost exclusively from CA. - management diversity is horrible, and some (not all) of the senior execs seem to be actively propogating the old boys club mentality.

Survival of the company is predicated solely on repeated acquisitions. Organic growth is not an option, either because management doesn't care or doesn't know how. Cycle goes: Acquire company, lay off as much staff as possible, write off whatever they can, collect legacy revenues, report record growth, then when revenues start to decline (which they will when you don't support and grow with your existing customers), do another acquisition. Employee culture is one of "the walking dead". Everyone is a survivor of a previous acquisition and operates under the specter of being laid off at any time. There is no motivation to excel, only fear. Everyone knows they are expendable and therefore allow themselves to be overworked. Human capital has become human cattle. Absolutely appalling level of micromanagement by CEO, which is understandable when you manage a house of cards like OpenText. No resources expended in either truly integrating all the acquisitions, or in developing a talented employee base.