Native Instruments reviews

The environment is prefaced on fear and secrecy. There is a massive lack of transparency and trust. Goals by upper management are not shared honestly with teams and as a result teams are set up for failure. Management does not focus on the larger strategy and makes hasty decisions without taking the time to understand. Time differences and extensive European vacation allowances make globally dependent deliveries impossible in a timely matter as all progress is stagnant while people are out of office. As a result collaboration is slow and technology can not move fast enough.

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.