One person company - Project Manager OpenText Employee Review

2.0
Jan 10, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Dynamic environment, adapting quickly to market trends, very divers portfolio build through acquisitions

Cons

It feels like the entire company is build around one person. Everything small thing goes to approval all the way up to the CEO. Every backlog is artificially adjusted immediately to incorporate the new market trends selected by the CEO. Every product has to be on growth at the end of the fiscal year or else ... Experienced critical engineers from the acquisition products were laid-off to meet the 'growth numbers' just because their salaries had larger impact.

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OpenText Response
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Thank you for your feedback! 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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5.0
Apr 5, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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