Native Instruments reviews about "communication"

Uncertain decisions of the management, 100 people fired in one day, people laid off after one-month working (better not hiring next time guys), new management not related to the music world (no producers, musicians or DJs, just business), unclear communication and people avoiding questions.

International communication sometimes is a bit slow

-salary & perks way below average -outdated tech stack -very limited career perspectives -lack of proper top down communication -strategy changes every week -although diversity on staff level decisions are made by middle-aged white men only - glass ceiling like in a text book -office has no AC - times get pretty hard in summer

No flex time for salary-exempt senior level employees. No bonuses. No tangible support for continuing education (3D CAD courses, project management, German & Chinese). Minimal support of measurement instruments, equipment, & fixture procurement to improve product development cycle efficiency and productivity. Employees have to contribute 50% toward health, dental, & vision benefits. Management needs improvement. Lots of organizational changes and mid-level & executive-level management changes left sense of discontinuity, poor interdepartmental communication, conflicting jurisdiction, lack of structure.

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.

In my personal experience, toxic company culture that fostered: - Buddy system/favoritism (leading to set-up-to-fail confirmation bias) - Poor boundaries and their breakdown over time - Work/life boundaries seen as lack of commitment or discontentment - Disempowering systems, dysfunction, and confusion as norm - Burnout, constantly ill employees - Toxic positivity, passive aggression, dishonest and passive communication - Healthy, direct communication perceived as offensive, hurtful, or problematic - Discrimination on multiple levels (I ignored the many racism/sexism claims online only to find out how pervasive they are) - Performative activism that doesn't support true inclusion - Fixed mindset that resists meaningful growth

- There are some "sacred cows" in the company's management positions whose opinion on a project is out of all question - If you are not sucking up to the "sacred cow" of your department your opinion or actions might not be taken into account, no matter how factual they are - The communication among departments was not transparent. I'm pretty sure they've solved this by now - Some key processes were implemented too slow - No option to work remotely - No option for flexible working hours - Salary (2014) slightly below market

Since a couple of months, there is a new (top) management team in place (they call themselves "Executives", I would rather call them FLOP Management). This new management team is totally incompetent and highly overrated, and their contribution to the company so far has been the unnecessary layoff of good people (people get 10 minutes to clean their desk!!). The other contribution of this "Management" is ZERO. Looking at their CVs, they stay on average between 6 months and 2 years in a company. The only communication they do, is prepared by an external PR company and uses a lot of expensive words but is totally useless (if you want to know the kind of communication, read the company reactions on the previous postings here at Glassdoor: alligned blabla; strategy blabla; vision blabla; company goals blabla; transformation blabla, blablablablabla). The management team doesn´t even understand the basics of business, let alone of the music industry, and they probably never made any meaningful contribution in their life. But they have an ego from Berlin to LA and back (probably comparable to their salary). With this management team, Native Instruments will be gone very soon (signs are already becoming very clear).