Came from merger. Don't apply to OpenText. Look somewhere else. - Maintenance Renewal Representative OpenText Employee Review

1.0
26 Apr 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great team willing to help each other out. Great team Team Lead and First Line Manager that care about employees' growth and well being. Good benefits Good pay Vacation time

Cons

Micromanagement enforced by senior/upper management believing it increases productivity, which it doesn't. It only demotivates employees, burns them out, and causes them to leave. Work/life balance is almost non-existent. Senior/upper management expect their employees to work like robots 24/7. You have to set boundaries and commit to them. Otherwise, you are a goner. Team Lead and First Line Manager care about their employees, but everyone above them don't. Questionable/self-centered CEO that brags about being tech-smart just to make himself look smart and popular. Also overhypes political correctness believing that's the most important thing that a company can do to thrive. Yes, people deserve a chance, but he is overdoing it. Company says they are customer-friendly, but its far from the truth. They layoff people without any signs or warnings. They don't care about their employees. Yes, some companies do the same thing and often pretend like they care, but if OpenText claims to be different and better, they must start acting like it.

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OpenText Response
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Thank you for your feedback. Our employee wellness program is a cornerstone to OpenText’s working culture. Currently, we operate a hybrid work structure which gives our team members the flexibility of home working with the opportunity to collaborate and innovate together in-person. We are always looking to improve on and implement global and local policies to enhance work-life balance for employees. OpenText has recently been recognized by Forbes as one of the World’s Best Employers. In addition, at OpenText, we provide continuous development opportunities for our leaders, to ensure they support and manage their teams efficiently to foster progression. ​Overall, we hear that team members work closely and efficiently with their managers, so we are sorry to hear that this has not been your experience.

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1.0
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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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