Out of touch executives don’t have to think for themselves since other people do the thinking for them and they simply ignore criticism from outside of their social circle. Therefore, they never exercise their brain and they don’t have empathy for... — read more 

Closed a 10 million dollar with a small team. New logo. Did another million ARR with 2 new logos the following year. Grew existing accounts in tech pre-sales and got new business. Still got the axe. Told the decision was made by some other group... — read more 

Is CEO and self proclaimed CTO (incompetent) this company is DOA. If the board doesn't see this, they need to resign.

I don’t get why people keep complaining about being overloaded when they just keep accepting every new task without pushing back. If you keep doing everything thrown at you, of course they’ll keep piling it on. Why wouldn’t they? Start saying no... — read more 

JPMorganChase just released an Open Letter to their third party suppliers, and sounded the AI security alarm! The financial giant sees what others are missing: Companies rushed to deploy AI without understanding the consequences. The mandate was... — read more 

What’s next? This company is tanking. Get out while you can

Let that sink in.

Management roles with higher salaries compared to individual contributors Fully remote (virtual) employees based in the U.S. Long-tenured employees nearing retirement age Cloud or operational roles that can be easily outsourced anything to add? — read more 

Unbelievable. There's a very real chance I might not survive the next round of layoffs. It feels like the only reason I'm still here is because they see me as 'cheap' labor. I watched long-time coworkers — people who dedicated 10, 20, even more years... — read more 

Layoffs don’t follow the rules you’d expect. High performers, long-timers, new hires, all were let go without clear reason. It seems decisions came down to spreadsheets, not people. The takeaway is that job security is an illusion. If your role gets... — read more 

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My self-worth isn't tied to my job. I am much more than that. Exponential growth happens during your biggest challenges. You will survive. And eventually, you'll thrive again. It's impossible not to take it personally. Each... — read more 

Company is run by a creepy narcissist and a band of hall monitors kissing the ring, Sad to see such incompetence destroy the innovations they were left to steward. Investors should flee because the board seems quite content to believe the BS being... — read more 

Unlike in the US, OpenText can’t simply fire employees in the UK and need to go through a redundancy process. This requires identifying a pool of potentially affected employees, then a consultation process where this group is whittled down to the... — read more 

One thing that all open text employees should know… There is always a current RIF list (Reduction in force) sitting with with the EVPs. Names are added to, and taken off pretty much at random. Does this mean it's possible to volunteer?

1600 "exited" the company. But... OT will add back 1,000 in strategic “locations”. So c'mon peeps, only 600 jobs lost!

Thirteen years at this place is way more than enough, especially with how everything's been so completely and unbelievably fu---d lately. I think I'm just going to start slacking off for real. Maybe that will finally land me on the next damn list... — read more 

Wondering what the vibes are. strategy changing? was there major impact in India COE?

For U.S.-based employees affected by recent or past OpenText layoffs: It looks like the severance package is 1 week per year of service, capped at 10 weeks total. That feels pretty lean—especially for those with long tenures. In other tech... — read more 

Any “business intelligence” company with market cap between 1-10B USD that is not growing is dead. OT fits this category. It’s impossible to grow against the behemoths MSFT, IBM, SAP with a motley set of acquisitions/products/services and an equally... — read more 

Well, the good news to the remaining Ooen Texters is that there are lots of space now in their offices since the layoff that virtual employees can be mandated to return to office. LOL

Today should be the last day of main layoffs for the americas. There will be a small group remaining for OOO, sick, vacation, travelling, etc. Expect an email from mark today telling you how painful this was for him but OT needed this (better... — read more 

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Employees that survive these frequent layoffs have z e r o loyalty to the company. Make it look like you are working hard, but under the covers it's a who give a sh attitude. There is nothing to be proud of. Morale will never get better because... — read more 

Could it be they realized they've pushed us as far as they could? I was the first to tell my manager I'd walk if we lost another person to whatever and didn’t get a replacement within a few weeks. A bunch of my teammates said the same. Is there any... — read more 

Informed this week engineering and product moving to COEs July 1.

Can Anybody refer a local lawyer in Ontario for severance packages that have dealt with OT and won?

I thought I did my due diligence before joining Open Text in January. I saw there were occasional layoffs, but every company has them. This is not occasional. Ever since I started, all I have done is worry about losing my job. Is this something new?... — read more 

He needs to see first hand how hard people work and how poorly deployed the internal tools are. And how they have Frankensteined all the acquisitions teams together… please come see how it is for the other 99%.

“Make OT great again (MOGA)?” Yeah, nothing screams greatness like surprise layoffs every other quarter. Really visionary stuff—if the vision is a revolving door. To my fellow ex-OpenTexters—you weren’t the problem. You just got caught in the... — read more 

I believe today’s layoff is a poorly timed and misguided decision. With the stock market showing signs of bottoming out, this is the time to invest and grow—not pull back. These unnecessary cuts are demoralizing and ultimately counterproductive. — read more 

They let everyone go, especially acquired like hMF, keeping sales teams but no one to patch or support the products. EMEA will now become India only (eventually), US is just Canada. Justifying the cost being saved by getting unskilled people in... — read more 

I know this is supposed to last the whole week, but it seems that today was the main day (even bigger than yesterday) and maybe the following days will be just for the people who are on vacation/sick leave/etc.

What you’re hearing, ask questions, vent, post timelines, team impacts, rumors, confirmations, tips, suggestions, things to do, or just support let's each other...

It's rough but stay strong. i'v been there and it felt like giving up on everthing. for 3months i interviewed at over ten companies then nothing for weeks because of the holidays. every time a recruiter asked why i wanted the job i just wanted to say... — read more 

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A call? A mgr/dir calls? HR calls? Separate meetings? What do they tell you? Anyone with experience on this board?