OpenText reviews about "manager"

if your manager is micro managing, you might hate it. currently 4 days from office, soon transitioning to 5 day wfo

- Salary is not aligned with industry standard for cloud program management - No more work from home starting March 2026

Extreme low level politics-huge favoritism to only local regional people group from TN, Andhra,Telengana,Karnataka and clear bias against engineers from non-southern states. Promotion and substantial hikes given only to puppets saying yes to everything and belonging to local regional communities. Top level micromanagement in almost everything, most managers lack technical depth or maturity and surviving on favoritism. Documentum product leadership is as clueless as noobs and waiting to retire from this company.Layoff happens every few months with/without anouncing. Product has no new customer base growing and leadership says that's the strategy of business. Employees are being put into PIP and being forced to resign or being exploited to toxic politics and mental torture, so good people are leaving voluntarily.Hiring too much interns as they want senior folks to layoff more often. Frequent firing, blame game is top notch by managers. Engineers who got promotion previous are being put into PIP as product is in stage of sinking.People should be very cautious while joining this company

Sudden removal of the hybrid model and shift to 5 days work from office is disappointing • In cities like Hyderabad and Bangalore, daily commuting can easily take 2–3 hours, which is exhausting and unproductive • For roles like Principal Customer Success Manager, most work involves client interactions across regions (calls, emails, Teams meetings) and can be done effectively remotely • The time lost in commuting could be better used for focused work, improving productivity and employee well-being • A full-time office mandate risks pushing away experienced employees who joined appreciating the flexibility and balance offered earlier

Legacy-heavy tech stack Slow career growth

Most of the products are legacy, so it's very hard to grow in terms of technology/learning. Work culture is not so good. Managers expect too much and people do overtime without even understanding that they are doing overwork without much reward. 3 days of office is mandatory for most of the teams.

Less salary, job stabiity is not good

C-Level executives (CEO, CMO, and others) were incompetent during my tenure. The CEO (2024) was a micro-manager, getting involved with any decision over $20K. The culture was report, report, and more reports (weekly). I spent over 60% of my time doing reports, which made it hard to get anything done. Everything required approvals (all the way to the top). My role interacted with many of our C-level execs and they were basically yes-men followers (not leaders). The CEO was removed by the board about 9 months after I left, but I'm hearing from old co-workers that the company is still dealing with the fallout of the previous CEO.