I applied online. I interviewed at Native Instruments (Los Angeles, CA) in Apr 2017
Interview
A take-home coding challenge, followed by a 1-hour technical interview over Skype, followed by a 2-hour non-technical interview call with the team, followed by a half-day on-site interview at their office which mostly consisted of me talking about my interest in the company / field and asking questions. I should noted that I was fortunate to have a fast turnaround time of one day to one week on each stage of the interview process this time around. When interviewing with Native Instruments in the past, I've had anywhere from 1-6 months of silence without follow-up on their end between interview stages and as a result, I had already found a different job by the time they got back to me with the next steps.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Take-home assignment:
A somewhat poorly / intimidatingly worded 'story' problem that contained some low-level audio programming concepts / digital signal processing jargon but was effectively only asking you to implement a function stub to perform a simple traversal of a linked list and then return a true/false result.
Skype interview/in-person interview questions:
1. Asked me about my experience/interests in music and the company/position
2. Asked me about my relevant work experience and technical skills
3. Asked me a few pop quiz coding questions about elementary fundamental language concepts/best practices
4. Asked me to write some nominal code to traverse a one or 2D array and change the value of some elements if conditions are met.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Native Instruments (Berlin) in Jul 2023
Interview
First interview 30 mins with a senior dev, went great. Then a take home task, spent over 10 hours on it and received no following answer, not even a confirmation. Very disappointing
I applied online. I interviewed at Native Instruments (Berlin)
Interview
It starts with a half an hour discussion with an engineering manager about the candidate's past experience and current expectations. It is also an opportunity to find out about the role and the company. If all goes well this is followed by an offline coding challenge (i.e. to be made home and sent to them when finished).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe your past experience, why do you apply for this role and other classical questions. The coding challenge is small and includes redesigning some given piece of code.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Native Instruments (London, England) in Jun 2021
Interview
The process consisted of an initial interview followed by a simple technical test and then three additional interviews each with a different focus (Technical, teamwork, and business).
The technical test was a classic and straightforward linked list test in C++. They encourage the use of any C++ library if required. You can complete the test with no time limit and without anyone watching.
Overall the interviews were casual and well structured. All team members that I spoke to (8+) seemed nice and most questions were easy to understand.
The reason my experience being rated negative is due to the rather ironic feedback that I received. In the final interview, it was stressed that I'd hear back within two days with either an offer or a rejection with detailed feedback. I never heard back from them directly but instead needed to call the recruiter after not hearing back for over a week. The received feedback only said that they felt my answers were "too vague". After four hours in interviews and over three hours completing a technical test, I find this feedback not only useless but insulting.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you keep up-to-date on advances in software development?
Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Native Instruments with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Native Instruments overall takes an average of 54 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Native Instruments as a Software Developer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 23%
Skills test: 23%
Group panel interview: 15%
Phone interview: 15%
Background check: 8%
Drug test: 8%
Presentation: 8%
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