I came here excited about the work. I was full of ideas and wanting to make things better. Open Text took all of that from me. They don't cultivate innovation. They don't even pretend to. Any new idea gets met with bureaucracy, indifference, or outright hostility. And the toxicity, the constant politics and fear and backstabbing, it leaches into you. I noticed my creativity slipping away. First the big ideas stopped coming, then the small ones, and now I don't even try. If you're still new here, get out before you become as disillusioned as me.
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@OP I feel your frustration. As a mentor once told me, keep your best ideas to yourself and only replicate what you've done before that worked as industry standard to keep your sanity. And as friends love to say, "I'm just collecting a pay cheque, giving them 10% of my effort"
OT is not a software company. It is a financial holdings company. Nothing more.
Sorry for your experience, which sadly is fairly standard.
OT corporate culture was literally designed to be soul crushing. OT Leaders (particularly if they have been there prior to MFI acquisition) already know absolutely everything, so nobody can possibly be smarter than them, (except Mark B of course).
The OT culture evolved because "Dear Leader" had to make all decisions regardless how minor. It was designed authoritarian rule which is why they are in the precarious spot they are in now.
If it makes you feel better, I have worked at many Tech companies (been around a while 😉) most are not as soul crushing. Start to look for other opportunities and get out as quickly as you can. Simply looking will make you feel better. Most other companies do not operate like that or have a Board that was literally asleep at the wheel for almost 15 years while a CEO brought the company to its knees. There will be better days to come with far better experiences. In the meantime hang in there.