Totalitarian Surveillance State - Software Engineer OpenText Employee Review

2.0
15 Feb 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Good peers - Decent benefits - Living wage

Cons

- Management monitors and measures "performance" of development using source commit metrics, which are famously inaccurate for measuring performance of knowledge work - Management is bullheaded and doesn't listen to concerns or ideas of their employees - Lack of real direction and leadership - Grows through acquisition, but doesn't invest in integrating properly - Management is allergic to using Cloud technologies, despite being a "cloud company" - Doesn't invest in infrastructure - Cuts wages during "bad times" without reinstating them for months or years at a time, even with several quarters of record revenues - VP and EVP leadership are completely worthless, lead through fear and intimidation, and are only interested in their own upward mobility and pleasing Supreme Leader Mark B

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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

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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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