You do your best, put in the hours, deliver results, and still get ignored while someone who spends lunch gossiping with management gets promoted. It’s disgusting. I’m done wasting energy trying to prove myself to people who reward bootlicking over competence.
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Hard work doesn’t pay off in unless you have a good company behind it.
@5a4 .."will ruin"...
@5a1 "...will ruining..."
Hello, India.
Yes, that's OT culture and that's our regional team culture as well.
There's youtube video about this that positioning is key, not skills.
If you talk sh-t on a corporate language and make yourself visible you will be promoted. But you have to go above your manager as he's the roadblocker then things will go well.
Otherwise, unless your senior manager, director know about what you do - no chances because biased manager will ruing it all for you as my manager does it to me.
Everything is decided by the Stonecutter society https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dSpOjj4YD8c&pp=ygURc3RvbmVjdXR0ZXJzIHNvbmfSBwkJDAoBhyohjO8%3D
@31n It seems like you're based in Bangalore. Cydna etc?? Heard that people have been putting in tireless efforts, working day and night, but the rewards appear minimal, with perhaps just around a ~5-10% . There's a lot of favoritism, and the group seems to be largely managed by two women who are known to be harsh with employees.
My suggestion would be to address these concerns with HR and provide specific details about the issues. While the organization is clearly looking to invest in India, and they may not yet have a reputation for being employee-friendly, they likely wouldn’t want to cultivate such a negative environment that it leads to high attrition rates becoming a major obstacle. Take care!
@31n Team Lunch where everyone gets their own lunch at the cafeteria....wow, just wow.....couldn't even pay for one or two miserable pizzas :-(
To which team are you referring? There seems to be a bimodal distribution of work cultures in MF Cyber. While few groups offer positive environments, others are severely lacking, prioritizing output over work-life balance and employee welfare (echoing the negative issues seen at Arksight). Donkey work is the motto and that was not for me so I chickened out at first opportunity.
Many of these tenured directors who enforce a 'heads-down' mentality without valuing people or innovation. Individuals should be diligent in identifying and steering clear of these specific troubled teams with a lot of lip service.
I want to work for a company that pulls random ai videos from youtube, quizes you on hours of content, but don't tell you what you got wrong on the quiz.
Yes, you get absolutely NO education or training out of it, but you can be proud that you wasted your time and got through the anxiety.
I joined Cyber Ent India about a year ago and just came across this page today. Seriously wish I'd read this before signing up!
I've been stuck reading these hundreds of posts for about an hour, and yeah, I can 100% confirm most of what’s said here is true. This place is seriously messed up. Looks like the big layoffs just made everything worse, especially for the teams who got stuck doing all the extra work.
Since I started, the only thing people talk about when grabbing coffee is the insane pressure, getting zero credit, low paychecks, being totally overworked, and having to pull late nights and weekends. On top of that, the company keeps changing processes and adding pointless overhead, so the work literally never ends for us.
Everyone likes to blast the managers, but honestly, I feel bad for them because the real stress is clearly coming straight from the top—the Directors, VPs, the whole leadership group. Every single person I talk to just keeps saying they hope the market picks up soon so they can bail. I've been in this industry for 10 years and have friends everywhere, and I can confidently say there's something uniquely toxic and negative about this specific company and work vibe.
They're broke, so all the perks are gone. They won't even pay for an occasional team lunch anymore. Rough.
@2b0 all employees get a Sandy Ono bobble figure and steak knives for Alec Baldwin.
@bn I completely agree! The two-percent raises are a slap in the face. Apparently promotions come with four-percent increases (a full punch in the face, not just a slap).
At least OpenText has some good swag:
https://youtu.be/EPkV218ZHBs?si=S9aXlyS6qONdMJjJ
The nature of employment is changing rapidly. Companies across industries are becoming leaner, more automated, and focused on efficiency. The reality is that future organizations will operate with smaller teams and fewer layers — not because they want to, but because they must to stay competitive.
Those who constantly complain or resist change will find themselves first out the door when companies restructure. The market is difficult right now, and many talented people are struggling to find work. Instead of focusing on what's wrong, it's worth remembering that having stable employment in this environment is a privilege. Gratitude, adaptability, and professionalism will take you further than resentment ever will.
Come on people, take some responsibility yourself! You should know it by now, especially if you're working for this company for a couple of years: There are NO bonuses whatsoever, the yearly merit increases are a joke, and every year there are workforce reductions that result in more work being dumped on those left behind. Whether you work hard or not, it does not have any impact on your salary as you can only get a mediocre 2% raise every year (if you're lucky). So, what can you do instead? Do as little as possible for OpenText. Quiet quit. Don't take any initiative. Don't engage in conversations/meetings as much as possible to avoid additional work at all cost. Don't participate in performance management. Delay tasks as much as possible or forward to others to get rid of tasks. Ignore people and requests when you can. This frees up your time to work on a side gig or a second job, allowing you to make more money. Because face it; OpenText does not care about you as an employee. The company has proven that over and over again. And so, as an employee so you should also NOT care about OpenText. Focus on your own income and development instead, and create multiple streams of income, so you're not dependent anymore on what kind of cr-p OpenText comes up with next.
Agreed, it is a disgrace to have this removed, a small gift to acknowledge your service is a nice thing to do. The PP slide that Todd goes through is just embarrassing on its own..
We haven't been told about raises yet.
I'm still mad that they pretend they are going to start caring about merit and that's the reason they stopped giving years of service awards to employees. 500.00 worth of gifts was atleast some sort of acknowledgement for a few decades of service.
Now it's 'get your name on a power point presentation'.
Come up with your own way to equal this out!
@pr at least you didn’t get sht. Some people got sht.
@ph Didn't get sh-t
Did everyone get a 2% raise across the company or only certain individuals?
You’ve got a job — and that itself is an achievement in this economy. Don’t get too excited about that 2% raise; it’s not a reward, it’s a survival allowance. Look around — the promotions didn’t go to talent, they went to attendance. That’s been the culture here forever. This place isn’t an innovator anymore, it’s a business processor with good PR. They can buy all the glossy magazine titles they want — ‘Best Company of the Year’ and all — but even after the CEO, CFO, CTO, and CIO take turns in musical chairs, absolutely nothing changes.
find a way to make addtl money during your work day. It's the only way you will be able to make ends meet.
@bn It's all the same thing. You, as an employee, just ain't worth it.
You ain't worth a decent raise and you ain't worth keeping around whenever they feel like it.
OT is a sh-t show.
And heck, the two-percent raises really show appreciation for employees when their cost of living is increasing at a greater rate than 2%. But that's not a layoff-related thing, it's just a sign of a company that has no respect for the people who make it work.
The constant layoffs weren't your big flashing clue?