If the compnay you work for has just been bought by Opentext - Senior Software QA Engineer OpenText Employee Review

1.0
Nov 14, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are some employee benefits and training provided but nothing beyond what most companies provide. Expect to have to do a lot to justify getting them as OT don't like spending money

Cons

So you have just been bought by Opentext. This is my experience. First be expecting people to be made redundant about ever 3-6 months. I continued to work for Opentext for 4 years after being bought and in the time i saw 8 rounds of redundancies. After 4 years the team i worked with had over 75% of the people made redundant (or they have left because OT is not a nice place to work ) and replaced with much cheaper alternatives overseas. If your company was on the cutting edge or was inventing and pushing new technologies, expect that to stop. Opentext just want to make the money back they spent buying the company and do that by maintaining the contracts they currently have. Not a dime will be spent adding to the product they bought you for, it is full on maintenance mode from now on.

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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
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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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