Used to be a great place to work... - Anonymous employee OpenText Employee Review

2.0
15 Apr 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

office culture: OK – depends on your team. can be great, can turn sour easily with office politics and poor senior and middle management. benefits: great. above average. no complaints there. main reason to stay. promotions: willing to give them at a cost.

Cons

little to no work-life-balance working hard and excelling at your profession unfortunately isn't enough to get a raise/bonus/promotion – mostly about who you know and office politics. compensation is above average when hired, however if promoted within the company compensation is not within industry standards. performance reviews are supposedly tied to compensation/promotion, however they rarely reflect this. no job descriptions given to employees, no transparency to salary ranges within your pay scale. under-staffed, under-paid, expected to work longer hours and pull in massive overtime with little to no reward. extremely high turn over and frequent lay-offs.

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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
26 June 2026
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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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