Too much communication, too little content - Product Specialist OpenText Employee Review

3.0
May 8, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Large, capable company, with a diverse product base. Because of the organic growth of the company, there are highly skilled technical people scattered between departments - if you have a problem, there is a member of staff who can fix it.

Cons

Mandatory regular company teleconferences, which bring everything to a complete halt *globally* for a couple of hours. With several thousand employees, that is literally weeks of lost productivity, mostly in the name of not telling any of us anything vaguely useful. The inability of the company to listen to customers - if a customer dares send in a satisfaction survey marking us poorly, and ticks the "do not contact me about this" box, we'll contact them anyway.

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5.0
Apr 5, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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
Business Outlook

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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