Native Instruments reviews about "team"

In my 20 years of professional career I have never worked for such a mismanaged company nor have I ever been subjected to such a toxic and unsafe workplace. I watched as managers and team members around me took multiple stress leaves to survive the day to day turmoil. I reported multiple HR compliance issues including discrimination, threats of violence, bullying and was met with an ill equpped HR team that failed to do anything. I don't even think the lack of action was intential rather they simply didn't know HOW to react. I appreciate the challenge NI is facing to cut high operating costs to improve profit margin and have worked at multiple companies in financial and organizational distress who had to let employees go but was shocked at how poorly prepared leadership was to react to these challenges. Just look at the canned response they are copying and pasting to each employee review. If they can't even afford creative and empathetic responses to their own employees how can you expect them to be able to respond to their user needs? They say in their responses that they are starting company wide Q&A but watch out, the last time they did this Danel Harver made cringe-worthy sexist comments again demonstrating how disconnected this leadership team is with reality. What is there to investigate? the evidence is right in front of you.

The situation has been going from bad to worse over the last few years, a quick glance at other reviews should be self-explanatory. No vision, no transparency, not even an understanding of the products that made the company great in its heydays at the management level.

The cons heavily outweigh the pros unfortunately. Almost everyone in middle management and upwards seem quite apathetic or have just lost the understanding of what made NI work well in the past and what they're capable of doing in the present (which would be a LOT, if they were able to focus more towards modern products and motivated teams). - No vision for innovative technology anymore - No real investment in modernizing their most popular and grossing platforms - Confused, self-conflicting management, that leads to... - Endless shifting of goals and moving targets = extremely inefficient workforce - No raises, outside following minimum inflation, til the day you leave. - No bonuses - Unfulfilled promises of transparency (for at least 5 years now) - Motivational speeches made every quarter about the riches the company will make and the growth we will see, which usually translates to: more work nobody wants to do because of the reasons mentioned above, and no one but "the company" will actually get any richer.

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.

no learnings from team surveys the executives don't seem to know what they're doing. they are always talking about "team empowerment" and "transparency" but the opposite is the case. toxic work culture. the company "strategy" has been changed from one day to the other and more than 100 people had to go. a workers council doesn't exist unfortunately. it seems that the company is run by the investors.

The whole time I was working there, the teams I worked with didn't release anything innovative or particularly exciting. This is because upper management were micro managing our backlog and forcing us to build whatever feature they had dreamt up that morning, a feature that had no connection what so ever to anything our users were asking for. By being completely out of touch with the entire actual user base, they managed to squander the largest amount of capital that had ever been invested into the music tech industry, and have absolutely nothing to show for it.