Sinking ship with talented employees leaving - Principal Software Engineer OpenText Employee Review

3.0
28 Jun 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. Free cab facility 2. 8.30-5.30 fixed timings 3. Leader in EIM - Only few products 4. Gym allowance and Educational allowance 5. Adopting to cloud with OT2 platform

Cons

1. Existing employees loosing trust and too much attrition from last 1-2 years. 2. People looking for change outside are also not preferring opentext. Too many walk-ins happening for developers. But none turning up for interviews. 3. Variable pay is cut short though company is making profits. 4. Very less pay compared to other product based companies. 5. Cafeteria is very small and only single vendor who serves worst food at high prices. 6. Very less or negligible hike. 7. Too many acquisitions and organizational changes. 8. No WFH options, stocks, performance bonus as compared to other product based companies. 9. Trying to get work done by experienced employees with interns or freshers. 10. Too many products with just 10-12 people working for single product. Not many features are delivered for every release. 11. Follows agile but hardly 1-2 releases per year for single product

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5.0
5 Apr 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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
Business outlook

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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