Resigning after 14+ years - Principal Architect OpenText Employee Review

1.0
Jul 17, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Great company if you just care about your bonus. As a consultant, you can make money if you do have a lot of billable.

Cons

Mananagement even in europe is like offshore management. You are just assigned on tasks. No thanks if you perform well. You are even not told about pre-sales opportunities you might work on. OpenText just killed acquired Vignette technology: Vignette campaign management is gone and wasn't replaced, no usable shopping integration, poor video integration in the CMS. No improvement in CMS workflow. Not even a single portlet to look at your calendar in SAP. The acquired Vignette products are the same they where 5 years ago. They were put in a sarcophagus. Most of our great customer are leaving because of lack of innovation.

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5.0
Apr 5, 2026
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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
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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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