Final Resting Place - Software Developer OpenText Employee Review

1.0
19 Mar 2016
Recommend
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Pros

(This is for R&D) Lots of vacation time. They shut down over Christmas for a week, you get three weeks to start and after about 6 years you get another week. They also give a new father two extra weeks to use within 12 months of a baby being born so in total you could have 7 weeks vacation in a year. The work and life balance is great. You can come and go as you please. Good benefits!

Cons

Many employees are gone at least once a week because they are "sick". This has caused a culture where a core group of people are doing almost all the work while everyone else gets a free ride. This causes the good employees to leave the company. Upper management does not acknowledge when there is a problem because if they did, they would actually have to make changes. Salary is low and raises are slow. People are leaving R&D in droves. At least once a week one or more people have quit. The CEO is not that great. He has not been carrying forward the values that OpenText has had in the past. This is the place you work when you are looking to find a final resting place for your career. Some of the people here have been here far too long and there is rampant gossip and people who you would not want to work with but nobody gets reprimanded.

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5.0
5 Apr 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
26 Jun 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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