Does Native Instruments pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Native Instruments employees rate their compensation and benefits as 2.5 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Native Instruments. This rating has decreased by 2% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Native Instruments?

35% of Native Instruments employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Native Instruments 3.6 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.2 for culture and values and 2.5 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Native Instruments?

Software Engineer (11) , Manager (8) , Software Developer (5) , Marketing (4) , Product Manager (4) , Engineer (3) , Senior Manager (3) , Anonymous (2) , Devops Engineer (2) , Director (2) , Product Designer (2) , Product Owner (2) , Technical Support (2) , UX Designer (2) , Working Student (2)

What are the pros of working at Native Instruments according to real employee reviews?

"Some great products and colleagues" ((in 30 reviews)); "Amazing people, some of the nicest, most talented and creative individuals will be among your coworkers." ((in 21 reviews)); "Good benefits!" ((in 12 reviews)); "everyone that works there is amazing and the culture is great" ((in 8 reviews)); "Good health benefits package Cool and friendly coworkers" ((in 6 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Native Instruments according to real employee reviews?

"Many layoffs and massive swipes of layoffs" ((in 15 reviews)); "By the end, my salary was almost 8 percent less than other competitive companies." ((in 13 reviews)); "The upper management is ABSOLUTELY disconnected from the teams and colleagues at all levels." ((in 6 reviews)); "After comically indecisive and clueless leadership in the face of how businesses adapt to new opportunities, they now are in deep trouble." ((in 6 reviews)); "International communication sometimes is a bit slow" ((in 6 reviews))

What are employees saying about Native Instruments redundancies in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Native Instruments redundancy and their outlook for job security at Native Instruments in 2026.

Native Instruments Reviews

2.8

35% would recommend to a friend

(182 total reviews)

Nick Williams

65% approve of CEO

27% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.6

Work/Life balance

3.4

Diversity and inclusion

3.2

Culture and values

2.5

Senior management

2.5

Compensation and benefits

2.5

Career opportunities

Native Instruments has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 182 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Native Instruments employee rating is 27% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

Reviews by job title

182 reviews

5.0

22 Mar 2021

Great People

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

It's great to work in NI. There are great people here and the team does try hard to satisfy the employees.

Cons

International communication sometimes is a bit slow

5.0

26 Sept 2019

Great company !

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

I've worked for a lot of companies but Native Instruments truly rules. Native is continuously releasing excellent products that are equipped with top notch technology, developed with the latest tools the industry has to offer. Native is a well deserved market leader in all fields of their business as the products they release are exceeding the market expectations while continuously setting standards and trends before the customers even know themselves. Especially the executive board plays a tremendous part in the positive development of Native Instruments. With their expertise of classic management theories they are able to address all occurring problems without the necessity to listen to employees or industry professionals. They just know whats best and always take the right decision. Every management decision is explained by the CEO himself with full transparency and empathy. In my opinion he is a role model for every other c-level manager out there even beyond the music industry. Open doors policy is vividly lived and in the town hall meetings there are no taboos regarding questions that can be asked. I’m so proud to work for a company in which the executive board can immediately detect redundancies and is able to professionally undertake them. The executive hirings are also outstanding! New colleagues in the executive board don’t even need to know the market or have to be long with the company, they are just that professional to start their job from 0 to 101%.

Cons

As a lot of people don't understand how genius you are and don’t value at which great place they work - some voice very unfair accusations here on glassdoor. The executives and especially the HR department could do more efforts to silence these opinionators and make everyone understand how lucky they are. Just use the classical management strategies like fear or loud voices. Furthermore get rid of more redundancies especially people with other opinions than yours and sue all people that telling lies about Native.

1.0

30 Aug 2019

Sinking Ship

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Great peers who are passionate about music, nice community area. During the time before all the layoffs the mood was relaxed and people got work done.

Cons

Indecisive c-level management. New projects get cancelled last minute resulting in massive layoffs (3 in the past year!). People are quitting in hoards resulting in a very serious brain drain. Global headcount reduced to around 400 from a high of 650. Overall lack of motivation in the office. Lack of career opportunities for ambitious and hardworking people. Pay is low (expect 15-20% under current Berlin market rate) and no performance benefits (bonuses, etc) resulting in no reason to overachieve. Sexist work environment.

Native Instruments Response

6y

We appreciate your feedback and we realize it is a difficult time of change at Native. Parting ways with 100 of our colleagues has been the most difficult part of our transformation, but we had to make some structural changes in order to be able to execute on the new vision. In regards to career opportunities, we do strive to provide our employees with development opportunities and will be creating a more structured approach to this in the coming months. You have mentioned here some matters that we take very seriously such as a sexist environment and we'd like to investigate this in greater detail. If you could please contact the People team to share more details around specific situations, we'd appreciate it.

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