Was a great company, severe Sales Managment problems; no organic growth; no Sales Managment accountability - Senior Account Executive OpenText Employee Review

3.0
22 Aug 2016
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Pros

Excellent benefits; excellent people when they stay; fast expense reimbursement; a lot of vacation time; closed Christmas to New Years; autonomous travel flexibility.

Cons

Poor Sales Managment at the director and SVP levels; treats experienced Enterprise Account Executives poorly; constant SVP turnover. I have been with Opentext for many years and have seen 5 SVP's for NA in the past 3.5 years. Sales Directors constantly being pushed to close deals that are not ready to close and forcing customers meetings from the VP's to get it done. Continuous account shuffling even with long term, continuously buying customers. SAP relationship has been in jeopardy for the past couple of years and virtually no relationship with Microsoft or Oracle. Few new solutions and constant product naming has confused customers with existing solutions questioning their investment. Maintenance division requires uplift every year causing long term customers to reconsider future purchases. Severely dysfunctional cloud team with poor execution skills and outdated technology that does not meet the solutions hardware requirements. Minimal innovation, creating solutions that have little customer interest but to please the analysts. Solution Consultants are few as they continuously leave Opentext leaving the Account Executives without resources when needed. Heavy shortage of Professional Services people to actually implement solutions as they have also left Opentext.

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5.0
5 Apr 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Friendly management, no hierarchy management , support for employees during sick

Cons

Kind of Still old rules for management

1.0
26 June 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

You get a paycheck. Some of the people are nice but don’t trust anyone.

Cons

Exec leadership is awful. Always putting out the positive party line but it is all lies. Products are so far behind competitors. No investment in product or marketing. Senior executive leadership team shuffles around their “good old boy” comrades to new roles instead of retiring them or holding them accountable. The internal politics with everyone back stabbing each other to manage up and keep their jobs. Leadership is just doing what the board chair tells them to do. It is all about self promotion vs doing the job. They like to blame the previous CEO but he has been gone a year and it has only gotten worse. OpenText likes to brand itself as top company to work for , I say STAY AWAY!

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