Beware the mass firings when they purchase a new company - Anonymous employee OpenText Employee Review

3.0
Apr 18, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I liked my team and my direct manager

Cons

Opentext has a habit of purchasing new companies without really building up the ones that they have already. Once purchased, they do a mass purge of the new company, and then a purge of their existing employees too in order to keep up with the new costs. There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to whom they pick, and almost just pull names out of a hat. This puts a strain on everyone. No one knows if they are next, and the small team now needs to take on that much more work, without getting any compensation for it. Annual reviews provide a poor increase of 2 or 3% if you are lucky. Getting promoted provides a generic company wide document that doesn't provide any real direction on progress.

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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

Kind of Still old rules for management

1.0
Jun 26, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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