Native Instruments reviews about "team"

Management looses trust, thought they keep trying to regain it.

Pay is not always commensurate with the duties of the position. But then again music industry jobs are not always as competitive. Slow growth opportunity for promotions.

- Terrible benefits: no 401k matching, horrible vacation, very limited perks

NI had acquired the best talent there was to build and deliver value to their product. So much so that they did the unthinkable and destroyed all of that with poor business decisions (if they made a decision at all), hiring incompetent managers and directors, and never holding themselves accountable. The level of incompetence is astounding because when asked a simple question of "why?" to a business decision or requesting data to inform, they run around like chickens with their heads cut off and then in the end, decide to get upset instead and do things like fire people to cover up their own lack of leadership skills. What's worse is that the non-manager folks who were hired on got reprimanded for simply doing their jobs. There is no interest of finding root causes nor resolving them. Leadership rules with putting fear into people so they can continue to elevate themselves because they don't understand that true leadership is to actually help those below and around them to rise.

- Higher ups do not care about employees at all. They will lynch you in a second and hire the next guy or girl in line who is eager to work for the company the moment you try to give input or suggest changes. I have seen many colleagues come and go because they did not agree on certain aspects of a project, and many negative scenarios and unethical practices/tactics to fire employees for no cause. Their marketing works in terms of making them look good externally, but from an internal perspective it's toxic, narcissistic, and a cesspool of people who think they are better then everyone else. - Lack professionalism and work under fear tactics. - Always telling you that you are replaceable and using "the brand" as a way to keep you under control. - higher ups gossip, and create toxic situations. treat regular employees unfairly and look to them as inferior additions to the company. - morale of the office is super strict and a bit rough to walk into after working here for a while. You really start to notice the self entitlement that the company prefers when they hire people. It feels like highschool again. Groups of "clicks" who gossip and pretend to be your friend but really, they are just there to drop the words "I work for NI" and "I'm a *insert job title* for NI". - hypocritical. their marketing suggest they want to help musicians and showcase a welcoming home but it is anything but that. - Zero support, training, and growth. They are not here to help you succeed. Instead, they are wait for you to screw up and not tell you so they can use it against you and toss you under the bus. - No valid reasons for staff firings and layoffs. I saw many of my talented colleagues let go out of nowhere. This is not a trust worthy company.

- big orga changes too often - hard to evolve - enterprise culture

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.