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Native Instruments

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Don’t put your livelihood in jeopardy by working here - Anonymous employee Native Instruments Employee Review

1.0
Oct 20, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Talented, skilled peers. Good benefits package. Work with musicians.

Cons

They hired professionals while rapidly growing but did not let people actually do the responsibilities they were hired for. Dictator like decisions were made at the top that were not data driven or user centric. Pivots were made on a whim and customers were adversely impacted. The executive team let a promising new product fail and layed off people. Soon before this, they restructured teams in a way that made no logical sense, moving subject matter experts away from where they could help the product most. No respect was given to long term team members who built the product from the start. If anyone disagreed with the new direction, they were fired. Experts were not consulted for strategic decisions and middle management was ineffective. Instead of letting the people they hired help drive the company forward, they buried them.

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Native Instruments Response
7y
We appreciate your feedback and would never want you to feel insecure in your working environment. As you mentioned, the focus on employee perks and benefits package was a big priority for the People Team in 2017 and 2018. Those initiatives were put in place specifically to help our employees know how valued they are. We know that as a result of decisions made based on our business strategy there has been an ebb and flow of changes across the company. We thank you for sharing your feedback on the methods of communication around these changes and want you to know that we take it into account moving forward as we look toward the year ahead in 2019.

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Thank you for your short and sweet feedback. We're thrilled to hear that you've found our team to be great to work with! Your feedback about pay is important to us, and we understand the significance of fair compensation. We're in the process of implementing a new global career framework with levels roles and salaries. As part of this, we evaluated our pay structures to ensure they remain competitive within the industry. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
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Super cool environment and amazing products that are easy to sell, cause who doesn't love music!

Cons

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