Horrid Company - Stay Away - Profits over People - Anonymous employee OpenText Employee Review

1.0
24 July 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you want to "Learn how to stick it to others" or "How to claw your way up the Corporate Ladder" then working here would fulfill that goal.

Cons

For me, this was honestly the worst career experience I ever had in my life. 1) Key Staff always gone: Dept Head was absent 90% majority of time, but she did put huge effort into sucking up to the CEO. 2) Outdated Data: The only powerpoint presentation dept head gave in 2017 was dated from 2007. 3)Employee Churn: Within a 14 month period, 8 people on team of 15 left. 4) Profit is THE only goal: There are a large number of acquisitions (CEO buys mostly little cheap products that don't fit with OpenText products but we were supposed to stitch them together into some kind of Frankenstein fashion & it created an ongoing mess to integrate. The CEO thinks he is a brilliant business man, who typically welcomes then promptly fires 10%+ of acquired staff w/out warning. 5 - All sorts of Waste: The Gaithersburg office has 4 floors which are 80% empty all the time - they wasted a lot of time, space and money. 6. Technical Antiquated Products - Their products are technically dated so users are very unhappy a good deal of the time. Overall: Talented individuals do not stay here long.

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5.0
5 Apr 2026
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Pros

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

Cons

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1.0
10 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Pros was that you had a job (and not for long if they find a way to outsource your position in the company).

Cons

Cons are so many to list, but from the leadership in this company being so out of touch with his/her employees, the restructuring done in their company to save some bucks on their end was crazy brutal, firing all of their talented workers to implement automated programs that did not function properly. Overall, horrible experience with OpenText, lies upon lies when it came to growth opportunities and keeping teams in the dark, no communication what so ever. Their business practices were just plain terrible.

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