OpenText CEO does not pay his employees (unless he feels like it) - Engineering Manager OpenText Employee Review

1.0
Jun 18, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

One can get lost in this mess of a company. How the CEO survives is a question many employees have had for a long while.

Cons

CEO decides based on the algorithms in his head what he feels should or should not be paid. In the public eye he is all for DEI yet in the background he is astonishingly unfair. I've been here for over a decade and work with many departments. My team of engineers were cut out of large deal payouts and I've heard the sales people have similar experiences. Why am I here...I am nearing retirement but feel it important to inform people what is really happening. What is most unfortunate is how this damages relationships internally and externally, massive blow to morale that had been very positive, revenue takes a huge his as momentum comes to a halt, and gererally destroys what had been working in a company for holding back some well deserved payouts...? Yet it continues for over a decade. People ask about once per quarter...why is he protected?

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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
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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