The Bliss of Company Policy Ignorance - Anonymous employee OpenText Employee Review

1.0
Apr 2, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Maybe the stock plan, but given how the company purchases nearly every struggling platform they see as a fit into their cloud offering not sure how long it will be a pro.

Cons

Management renege on promises to employees during performance reviews as HR changes the performance guidelines every 6-12 months to get out of them. So HR constantly moves the goal line when it comes to the next performance review. Or HR states it has no budget to give the employee who makes their performance objective a promotion or raise while the company goes out and spends millions on another company to acquire. Also in nearly all positions, if not all, working a 60 hour week is expected, if not more. The company also uses a completely outdated pay scale to determine employee pay in a particular location, while other companies pay the same resources what they are worth. This is causing the company to suffer a significant loss of talent.

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5.0
Apr 5, 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
Jun 26, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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