Great sales and marketing camraderie, crappy leadership, awful pay, - Sales Manager OpenText Employee Review

2.0
22 Aug 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- smart, competent individual contributors - solid culture in sales and marketing - 15 days of vacation for new hires - flexible job opportunities

Cons

- low morale (two layoff rounds each year to make up for lacking revenue contribution) - no incentives for excellent performance, no bonus - outdated products attempting to keep up with changing market through selective verbiage in marketing campaigns - zero training for new hires - job security is dependent on who you know leaving plenty of incompetent leaders in place - good old boys club. Cmo is sole female executive and chosen due to being former ceos wife's good friend

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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
Recommend
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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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