OpenText reviews about "manager"

For starters, the pay is far lower than the market average. This is especially offensive when you consider that the CEO is one of the highest paid CEOs in Canada. Seniority can, and often does, mean an increase in salary by a few thousand but nothing commensurate to what the job requires. The biggest issue, however, is the people. Perhaps it's the tension everyone feels after experiencing so many back-to-back lay offs, but people here, as another reviewer aptly stated, seem to take everything personally. Additionally, several employees respond rather curtly/rudely when you approach them with a question regarding their work, even if you come across as friendly. Many employees are often on the defensive, and will either actively ignore your inquiry or respond rudely, going as far as complaining to your direct manager if they feel inconvenienced by your questions. There is a complete lack of cohesion between teams, often with leaders fending for themselves. This culture has trickled down to the average employee, and now the organization is stuck with individuals who only see themselves as just that; an individual. It can make anticipating collaboration an anxiety-inducing affair, and can make a good day feel miserable. Some people seem more immune to it than others. Having worked in companies where the poor management is often balanced out by amazing and generous peers, I'd say OpenText has the opposite problem and it can be quite draining.

Lots of virtue signalling by all employees and leadership. Unfortunately, not a lot of those virtues displayed when required to act with integrity. Middle managers are prioritising their own careers over the opportunities that are available in the market. Heavily bureaucratic, you are just a number to a team of distant managers, no matter how well you perform.

1. TeamSite is legacy one and non-technical managers lead engineering team with product knowledge. Very bad experience. Not recommended.

Massive layoffs due to restructuring.

- I felt misled on the job application. It described the role as requiring technical skills in various programming languages, and thought this would be good to further my skills. In actuality, I hardly use those and I am worried that I tanked my IT career by choosing this role. - Very poor quality legacy, closed source, licensed tools to work with. If you studied IT in university, you just took a time portal two decades back. As a result, the software we maintain does not feel secure, fails constantly and we do not follow modern develop principles, forcing to do lots of manual work vs working in a programmatic, smart way. - Extending the above point, when you voice your opinion you people become defensive, that this is how it's done in the real world, coming from people who never worked an IT job before. It's a bit shocking how so many people have "Cloud...." whatever in their job title, but they don't know anything about networking, cloud computing concepts or software development. It's one bad design / development practice initiated by uneducated people to fix the previous one, rinse repeat. - Very cliquey working environment, with the "cool people" having their own circles, that will make you feel like an outsider for having different opinions. As a result, you are made to feel anti social and negative by your manager and team at least once a week. - Management pushes more and more work on us, with very high expectations, although our pay is bottom of the barrel for the industry. When we start to feel stressed out, management tells us what we want to hear that "oh, we will raise this" but nothing happens. Mixed signals for encouraging work life balance, while expecting us to work intensely the whole day, and at the same time expecting us to attend social things during work hours. - Guidance and training is almost non existent, and blame is constantly put on us when something goes wrong, but there is no credit given when we stress over very complex tasks and figure things out. We are reminded to "ask questions" when we don't know, but if we don't know what we are doing is wrong - how would we know to ask or not? When you learn IT in a certain way in University, everything in this role is counter intuitive to that, and it's incredibly easy to make a mistake because of the huge amount of manual work. In a nutshell, its a very narrow minded environment to work in with really bad software and really backwards working practices. I really hope to leave this role soon. Thanks to my manager and some team mates for trying to be nice to me.

Some managers are really bad. Very bad annual hike.

No opportunities to growth. Management hide real things to employees. Favoritism towards managers friends.

They are working on old tech stacks Most of the days there is now work, people just come to eat sleep and talk No skill growth here There can be little biasness between team members, if you manager is from a specific culture he will only prefer to talk and give work to the people who are from there culture, for other they will maintain distance, do micromanagement for them In 1:1 managers will always make you feel bad and un wanted, and alot of criticism, they will expect you to do something extra for the company along with the work,