OpenText Reviews

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The work is mundane. Very repetitive projects and lack of executive direction. Strategies change on an annual basis with little time to implement.

Cons

The philosophy of growth is big shark eating smaller fishes in the sea.

They acquire companies(competitors mostly), only take mild interest in their flagship products, cut development for other products and leave them to die while collecting revenue in maintenance.

Great pay for new graduates, but minimal increases, some times they don't even adjust for inflation.

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M&A activity causes a lot of layoffs. Unstable environment

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Salaries are on the low-side. Stress levels are high. Be prepared to put fires out, regularly. Budgets aren't released until after the new fiscal year has already started. Worldwide company so be prepared to work well into the evening in order to accommodate time zones.

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Never worked somewhere that was so heavy in back office functions! So many finance, marketing and HR people! The company is software not consulting. Salaries are inflated.
Lots of people leave at 3 and 4 not working full hours while others work tirelessly.
Same old stuff day after day with acquisitions. Also means functions can be overinflated with too many people and low performers.
Culture is control from the top. The HR function is administrative overall, too many people, with a lack of communication, no focus , and few people that care about employees!
HR has had what 4 or 5 heads of HR in 5 years?!
Lots of golden handcuff people at OpenText - why leave when you are overpaid, underworked?!?!

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Management seems more interested in share holders

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Challenges with legacy customer sat.

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not many. things are great........much better than previous employers

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lies, too many acquisitions, lay offs over the phone, too large of a company - yuo are just a number waiting for your "call" that your time is up

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Well the work from home sounds like a perk, until you realize it means you're expected to work at home after hours and forget your personal life. You may be expected to pull 17 hour days depending on your department. If you're sick, you're expected to work from home. If you're on vacation but they know you're not going away, you'll get phone calls and be asked to help with work. They really don't allow downtime here. And the vacation time maxes out at 4 weeks no matter how long you've been there.
HR is a joke and if you have an issue with a manager you best keep it to yourself because it will only backfire if you bring it up to HR. The company keeps its pay bands completely confidential so you will never know whether you are even paid within the salary range for your job. And if you apply to other jobs internally, again, you won't know whether it's a step up or down in salary (unless you're obviously moving to a much higher role), and they use this against you by keeping you at your same salary when you move from one role to another and tell you it's the same pay so you won't be getting more, until you talk to peers and realize you may be underpaid by as much as 20k.
Then there's also the culture - managers are all buddies, and only promote based on their friendships, not on performance or skills and ability to do the job. I have seen someone become a manager who came from a regular admin job from another department, and there were a whole handful of very qualified and capable admins within the team itself who should have gotten the job, but this other admin who came from a completely different department was chosen over everyone else because they were friends with the manager... meanwhile, people within their own team with years of experience and all the skills desired for a manager were overlooked in favor of this outsider who had nothing to offer besides talking the talk and being connected.
Because managers are hired without concern as to their qualifications, hard working staff are left to truly perform the jobs of managers, while the managers just sit there and delegate. For instance, a manager went on vacation and sent one of their staff an email the night before telling them to take care of all these tasks that the manager themselves had promised to take care of three months prior. They dump everything on your lap. Do NOT ever go above and beyond proving your capabilities as it will backfire and managers will play it off as "enabling" you to practice higher skills, but in reality they are pawning off their work to you.
This is all extremely demoralizing and these are just some very brief examples of how OpenText does everything possible to keep good, hard working people chained to jobs and salaries that are way beneath them.