OpenText reviews

3.2

52% would recommend to a friend

(5,610 total reviews)
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Ayman Antoun

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43% positive business outlook

OpenText has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 5,610 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The OpenText employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
1.0
Jan 11, 2019

Employees are pawns

Recommend
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Pros

Sorry, can't think of any.

Cons

CEO is an emperor, not a leader. Has patronizing advice for employees on how to best manage their lives, spend their bank holidays, etc. Boasts regularly about company financial success, yet employees are continually stiffed for benefits, compensation, and education reimbursement, etc. Many employees have been without raises for years on end. Even the federal government has cost-of-living increases.

1.0
Dec 30, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you are supporting a legacy product, you can have a long run here as no product is ever allowed to die as long as some customer is paying maintenance for it.

Cons

Horrible culture comes from the top down (what's the Russian saying -- a fish rots from the head? That's the case here). Mark B is an egotistical micromanager and that shapes everything. Whatever he blurts out, everyone scrambles to do, no questions asked. There is no incentive for individual thought or problem-solving. No idea is a good idea unless it comes from Mark.

1.0
Nov 8, 2015

Trying to save the ECM world through acquisitions and not succeeding.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fair pay, Xmas-New Years company-wide closure, 401k matching and other decent benefits. Fellow employees (not management).

Cons

Everything else. So-called directors don't know how to direct, managers don't know how to manage. They haven't quite got the hang of how to work with remote employees. Constant shuttling of management. Little to nothing in the way of raises. There is not a true end-to-end solution, because it is not organic, but rather a big, messy puzzle put together by different products that were built by difference companies, and it is a seriously difficult and expensive puzzle to implement and configure. There are *always* yearly staff reductions to make company profits look better. Layoffs common because mgmt cannot figure out all the moving parts in order to make the most of their resources. Management is very reactionary rather than visionary. There are far better ECM companies out there.

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