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Native Instruments

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Quality Place if you can speak up for yourself. - Anonymous employee Native Instruments Employee Review

4.0
3 Dec 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Super cool environment and amazing products that are easy to sell, cause who doesn't love music!

Cons

A lot of miscommunication and groupthink can make marketing projects spiral when they could have been more efficient by just meeting sooner.

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5.0
7 Dec 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people to work for

Cons

Doesn't pay a whole lot

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Native Instruments Response
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Thank you for your short and sweet feedback. We're thrilled to hear that you've found our team to be great to work with! Your feedback about pay is important to us, and we understand the significance of fair compensation. We're in the process of implementing a new global career framework with levels roles and salaries. As part of this, we evaluated our pay structures to ensure they remain competitive within the industry. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
1.0
4 Aug 2025
Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
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Pros

NI still benefits from its historical reputation in the music production world. • Some strong engineers remain, though most senior talent has left

Cons

Products are unreliable and outdated. Users report Kontakt and Maschine still crash on new Apple M‑series Macs (Community, 2025). • No clear product vision. Reddit threads call NI “stuck treading water” in 2025 (Reddit, 2025). • Strategic missteps. Instead of innovating, NI is licensing its NKS tech to competitors like Akai and Korg (MusicRadar, 2025). • Customer frustration is at an all-time high. Trustpilot shows ~1.5/5 with complaints about bugs, poor support, and upselling (Trustpilot, 2025).

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