National Instruments Reviews

Current Employee – been working at National Instruments

Pros – NI has a great company culture and offers very stable employement. They have great benefits and you will find opportunity to challenge yourself if thats what you want.

Cons – Below average salaries across the entire company and limited recognition for achievement. You will also find some employees get by doing the bare minimum because others will pick up the slack.

Advice to Senior Management – Recognize employee achievements, be more transparent about salary information and increase salaries across the entire company. Be more open to international transfers.

Former Employee – worked at National Instruments

Pros – Surrounded by creative, hugely innovative minds

Cons – International marcom group consists of unprofessional folks-- shocking. They spoke to each other in asian languages in meetings making no attempt to include the english speaker in their midst. It is like a little inner circle-- in which case, why did they hire me? I quit in no time. Nightmare. No clear directio. Was ever provided, i was left to scramble and find my own bearings. Hostile atmosphere!

Advice to Senior Management – One ill-advised group can tarnish the image of an entire corporation. Hope someone is taking stock of such groups within your company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at National Instruments

Pros – Lot of responsiblity, casual work environment, competitive pay ($17/hr in 2009). Great community with other interns

Cons – Worked on project by myself. Would have preferred more collaboration.

Advice to Senior Management – Enforce interactive engineer experiences

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at National Instruments

Pros – 1. Flexibility
2. Growth opp
3. Teaching offsite

Cons – 1. Horrible Management
2. Lot of politics with respect to positions in the Marketing dept

Advice to Senior Management – Dont make managers compete with reporting employees for the same positions outside the dept

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at National Instruments

Pros – You will obtain valuable experience on NI products. Once you do, get out and find a better job else where.

Cons – Incompetent management. Incompetent pay. I will get out of here soon.

Advice to Senior Management – Increase the compensation package, screen out bad leadership

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at National Instruments

Pros – Competent senior management
Homegrown mentality and loyalty to employees
Encourages thinking outside the box
Given a lot of freedom

Cons – salary is lower than avg
should give high performers more incentive to stay motivated and stay

Advice to Senior Management – get rid of the fat,

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at National Instruments

Pros – Flexible, easy going, smart people

Cons – consensus driven, lower pay compared to market

Advice to Senior Management – The hardware vice presidents need to improve. I often see them become very non-technical and then they surround themselves with people worse than them. They need to appreciate their lower level employees better.
Also, I see many people leave (with different official reasons) but behind the scenes it is PAY, PAY and PAY. When it is a DAQ and GPIB company, lower pay with new grads can work fine but as the company continues to focus on vertical markets/industries, they need to retain the experienced employees.
HR could use much improvement. I have gotten feedback from multiple people that the VP of HR really doesn't care if you don't agree with him.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at National Instruments

Pros – Flexibility. People. Work environment. Benefits.

Cons – Pay. Promotions. Visibility. Traditional. Conservative.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay better.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at National Instruments

Pros – it is good and close to where i live

Cons – no cons that i know of

Advice to Senior Management – you should definitely work here

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at National Instruments

Pros – Most management really cares about the people. Work-life balance is priority. Lays off are absolute last resort, really. Smart people to work with, challenging problems to solve.

Cons – Consensus-driven decisions slow things down. Competitive, ambitious types sometimes eventually burn out from lack of large performance bonuses. R&D department is favored over anyone else, and it shows.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep doing what you're doing because it has shown amazing results in recruiting, prestige, and ability to minimize recession impact.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend