OpenText Employee Reviews about "work from home"

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Career advancement here is a myth for 99% of employees. If you happen to be in the 1% that does manage to get a promotion and have some type of career growth, chances are you're close friends with those at the top. There's a video on YouTube with one of the C-level execs talking about career growth and development. Total marketing garbage from one of the chosen few that had their career handed to them on a silver plate. They actually have an internal HR policy that if you apply to a position that is more senior to your current role, you are not and will not get the salary that fits your new role and the market rate. You will be capped at a raise of 15% of your current salary. What kind of incentive is that for career advancement if you're part of the 99%? Do yourself a favour and work somewhere else.

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- Lack of events that shares the companies "health" such as financial, market position in Brazil, while we do have it in a global perspective;

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they say there's a work-life balance ... but I don't see it.

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compensation is low and career growth

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A lot of folks work from home so you often get a feeling that the office is empty

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Flex time and work from home depends on manager and not on type of job. Should be even policy across the board.

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OpenText is like a scrapyard/junkyard. They phagocyte older software companies that did a good job in the past but whose technologies have become pretty obsolete, along with the employees who have been working for that company for a few years. You then stay with the same role, conditions and job potentially forever. And if eventually you are not needed (too many people, wrong country, wrong office, etc.) you will be asked to leave with a very small redundancy package. And that is pretty much it. In the meantime they will leech the remaining customers they acquired along with your company, and since some corporate software can be very sticky this could bring many years of revenues with minimal effort. The sales team will not be trying to sell more of your old weird software to new customers, cause they have no clue about it. They will be trying to sell something else they do know about to your old customers (such as the original OT core software or some cloud SAP solution). And they won't kill themselves doing this either, because one of the secret rules in opentext is that you should not have too much initiative. First, because no one will thank you for doing a too good job: there are no real rewards whatsoever. You might get a few seconds of glory in a PPT slide by the end of the financial year along with other 800 employees if you are lucky. And secondly because you might put your managers on the spotlight doing things better than usual, and this could result in more work for them. And if you are a manager at OT you want to keep your head down and just carry on. In a scrapyard you rarely invest in better technology. And if Joe has been taking apart the wheels of the cars for the last 10 years before arriving there, you don't want to put Joe to learn something new and exciting like taking apart engines. That'll be wasting your money in replacing Joe with somebody else who will then need to learn Joe's old and obsolete trade. Unless Joe's workload is crazy for a good few months in a row: then you need to consider hiring somebody else to help him. Spreading Joe's load internally will always be the preferred solution, even if it does not make much sense and will just put too much pressure on others who never took wheels apart. Hiring is the very last resort. This results in zero training opportunities (training is considered akin to vacation in opentext, so if you thought "oh, wow! they have some many products I could get cross-trained on!" forget it) and zero innovation. The only development to existing software is made to keep it compatible with new third-party tools and technologies to lure customers into thinking we are cutting edge. But any new feature will only happen if it has been requested several times by really big accounts. So if you are not very creative or ambitious and you don't give a damn about exciting new features or an exciting new role, this is an ok place for a few years, to probably do your 9-5 job, pay the bills and focus on something else that keeps your life exciting. But if you are an ambitious person with ambitious career prospects in the short term you are definitely better off somewhere else. This is not to say there is not amazingly talented people in opentext. There are many of them, but opentext does not take real advantage of their talent. You don't need that much talent to run a scrapyard, do you?.

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Contract, not many hours available