Sick company, worst CEO on the planet - Sales Management OpenText Employee Review

5.0
Jun 15, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Many good quality people in the trenches. They tolerate and or ignore the CEO's micro management and ego. It is survival of the fittest. If you suck up you could survive, but have fun trying to sleep at night.

Cons

CEO and his team of first line managers. A sick man professionally and personally. He has no personal life and it is noticed by the employees. Has the Canadians thinking he is one of them.... Pure joke. Has a board of Directors who are clueless puppets that the CEO sucks up to, so he can manipulate. Most of the CEO's direct reports cannot personally tolerate him, but they do so to keep a job. In 3 years this company has flushed all but one of the executive leaders, including 3 SVP's of HR, 2 sales leaders and others. Many people from the CEO's Oracle background laugh that he is now a CEO. A pure tech head, clueless of real innovative business and people skills. It is amazing Wall Street tolerates.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 10, 2026
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Pros

Pros was that you had a job (and not for long if they find a way to outsource your position in the company).

Cons

Cons are so many to list, but from the leadership in this company being so out of touch with his/her employees, the restructuring done in their company to save some bucks on their end was crazy brutal, firing all of their talented workers to implement automated programs that did not function properly. Overall, horrible experience with OpenText, lies upon lies when it came to growth opportunities and keeping teams in the dark, no communication what so ever. Their business practices were just plain terrible.

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