Native Instruments reviews

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.

No clear vision or the vision is extremely poorly transmitted from top down to the teams. Politics play a huge role and there are lots of opposing parties. Yearly organizational changes done with poor or incomplete communication. Middle management preoccupied only in saving their job and blaming their lack of vision on the people below. Many of them have absolutely no clue about how to do their job but have a good survival instinct. Lower than average compensation with no internal salary grids. It is a true corporate jungle.