Trying to save the ECM world through acquisitions and not succeeding. - Anonymous employee OpenText Employee Review

1.0
8 Nov 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Fair pay, Xmas-New Years company-wide closure, 401k matching and other decent benefits. Fellow employees (not management).

Cons

Everything else. So-called directors don't know how to direct, managers don't know how to manage. They haven't quite got the hang of how to work with remote employees. Constant shuttling of management. Little to nothing in the way of raises. There is not a true end-to-end solution, because it is not organic, but rather a big, messy puzzle put together by different products that were built by difference companies, and it is a seriously difficult and expensive puzzle to implement and configure. There are *always* yearly staff reductions to make company profits look better. Layoffs common because mgmt cannot figure out all the moving parts in order to make the most of their resources. Management is very reactionary rather than visionary. There are far better ECM companies out there.

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5.0
5 Apr 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
26 Jun 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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