North Korea of Enterprise Software - Anonymous employee OpenText Employee Review

1.0
Sep 9, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You can have a great work-life balance here This is a company managed by spreadsheets - great if you want to truly learn the economics of a software business Lots of acquisitions - always something new to learn and experience

Cons

This is a company with an insufferable CEO who insists on making every single decision, no matter how small. He has to be always right and he surrounded himself with a mediocre executive team that will never challenge any of his decisions. If you like meetings where nobody speaks up and everyone avoids eye contact, this is a company for you. If you love quarterly budget cuts, travel and hiring freezes, you will thrive here. If you don't mind complete lack of investment, living of maintenance from trapped customers who hate your company, yet have no choice but keep paying every year, this is the place! Most importantly, if you don't mind working exclusively with obsolete technology, you'll do great.

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5.0
Apr 5, 2026
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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
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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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