An average company to work in - Principal Software Engineer OpenText Employee Review

2.0
8 Dec 2019
Recommend
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Pros

This review is specific to ECD division where many folks were onboarded from EMC. Many positive side is due to the work culture carried forward from EMC but it is slowly eroding as OpenText enforces its narrow vision of squeezing everything and everybody. Politics is little less Average salaries.

Cons

No option for work from home. It is highly discouraged. You are thrown around from project to project at random. High pressure due to short 2 week sprints. Cost cutting in every thing imaginable. Cutting down team sizes to squeeze maximum work.

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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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