I Learned A Ton, Would Not Do It Again - Anonymous employee Networked Insights Employee Review

While the company focused on culture, they often failed. Parties and allowing "silliness" to occur in the office is only part of a strong culture. Preventing sophomoric behavior and lewd jokes would go a long way to improve culture. Additionally, having the leadership actually mingle and show concern for the entire staff would go a long way. The company isn't that big yet, there's no excuse for leaders to not know everyone's name. A lack of clarity is apparent. It's been mentioned before, and raised by employees many times, but due to any number of reasons, clarification on the direction of the company wasn't happening. Diversity is a real issue, not a laughing matter. I don't think anyone there was actively anti-diversity, but they clearly were not concerned with increasing the diversity of the company. Leadership should not be afraid of questions from the employees. While they officially had an open door policy, it wasn't uncommon for that door to be shut with obfuscation or misdirection. And while it may be uncomfortable to answer questions in front of the entire company, if it is asked it should not be pushed away, denied, or laughed at. Embrace that your employees have a legitimate question and a serious answer would go miles to keeping employees happy. Lay offs are not unique to NI. They happen, particularly in the circumstances that NI faced. But it seems the messaging was not consistent here. Some employees listed as current on this site are saying that poor performing employees were let go. Yet that was not why employees were let go. If leadership is sending the message that the employees that were laid off were laid off for reasons other than they disclosed to the laid off employees, that is a clear deception.