Local Management great, but company wide focus is not on employee satisfaction. - Product Specialist OpenText Employee Review

2.0
19 Nov 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Local management is great to work with and flexible to meet employee work/life balance needs. Almost all of the staff that I have interacted with, across product lines and corporate have been friendly and easy to work with. Health benefits are decent.

Cons

Acquisition process was rough - reduced vacation days (without compensation) when we standardized on the corporate policy. Raise process is virtually non-existent despite reporting record profits quarter after quarter. Company wide emails announce a review and raise procedure for a set deadline, then no further announcements on salary increases even after the deadline passes. Too much growth through acquisition has lead to a silo effect for each product and there are occasional disconnects due to the many different procedures across the company.

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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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