OpenText Reviews

Pros

Great company, innovative, great people

Cons

- Long hours - Constant Acquisitions each year

Pros

Nice office and nice coworkers

Cons

low growth in salary over a yearly period

Advice to Management

keep working hard

Pros

- good insurance benefits - free parking - nice office -

Cons

- no job security - the customer service department is very disorganized -the customer service manager is very rude and lacks customer service skills even when communicating with her team members - long hours and understaffed - -

Advice to Management

- advise your managers to treat their team members with some respect - low salary

Pros

- View is nice - Free coffee that actually tastes good - Able to meed some quality people who will remain friends beyond OT - Free parking - Good area for errands during lunch break

Cons

This USED to be such an amazing company to work for. The CEO is focused on acquiring as many tech companies as possible so fast that it's hard to keep up with them. Once acquired, everyone from that company gets fired and they bring everything to Waterloo without hiring the additional headcount to take it on. There used to be a work/life balance but now you are forced to work unrealistic amounts of overtime in...

Pros

Work from home Coffee Laidback and hands off manager

Cons

Pay Upper management Cheap company They expect you to do more while getting paid little It takes forever to hire someone to backfill a role and getting more headcount is impossible. The innovation is non existent for some processes and are super inefficient Old school work styles

Advice to Management

Invest more in your people and hire better upper management

Pros

The people here are great, benefits are great, vacation time is great. Salary good be better.

Cons

Salary could be better, but it could also be worse

Pros

Nice people, treat you with respect. Buildings are nice, good cafeteria offering variety of food at decent prices, free Starbucks coffee, teas, kombucha. Company is always acquiring companies and restructuring which means it is a very fast pace environment, you learn a lot of things every day, which at times could also be frustrating. Due to the size of the company your responsibilities are concentrated in only one small...

Cons

No training, basically you sit down and start asking co-workers how to do things, but managers expect you to deliver things on-time. The number of Directors had increased but not staff, too many executives with no knowledge of the area causing additional work or non-value added tasks to their staff. Salary is way below market, benefits are not great, work-life balance was good but not so much right now.

Pros

Great benefits Good workplace perks (Oktoberfest/summer festivals) Great location (next to parks so there are good paths)

Cons

Large company can mean that it's difficult to get things done. Constantly having to onboard new acquisitions which means our culture isn't stable. After 2 years here, I still don't know what our company does.