Stay away - Senior Software Engineer OpenText Employee Review

2.0
Sep 22, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I would only recommend Opentext to entry-level employees, to get some experience in a structured environment with decent benefits. The CEO is a decent guy.

Cons

Opentext is mainly interested in acquisitions and numbers, the employees are its least important resource. Be prepared to be bombarded with fancy charts and financial numbers at every all-hand meeting. Each acquisition is usually followed with a round of layoffs, you are always on your toes. Employees laid off are not replaced thanks to an on-going hiring freeze, so new tasks are dropped on you overnight without any formal training, on top of your existing ones. They brag about being an international company with offices around the world but they do not have processes in place to handle a simple employee transfer from one country to another, I went through one of those transfers and the process was disorganized and amateurish, despite given a months’ long notice that I was moving to a different country, the whole process failed at every step with HR being totally clueless, I only found out what would be my new salary and benefits hours before I started working in the new country. Leaving them was just as bad, with them taking a month to send me an empty box so that I can return my laptop, and that was after I reminded them about it.

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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

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2.0
Apr 25, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I no longer work there.

Cons

They do not value their employees. I was told to never take more than a week off at a time, or it was proof you were not needed. They do not value their customers. Channels created to allow customer feedback to management were shutdown because management did not want to have to deal with customers upset about product issues caused by their cost cutting.

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