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Research & Development Hardware Technician - Research & Development Hardware Technician National Instruments Employee Review

4.0
Dec 1, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Tier 1 Work / Life balance. Your ideas are considered, all members are made to feel they bring value. Smart people are hired and management gets out of the way, micromanagement does not exist. 50% match on 401k of 1st 6% contributed. Health, dental, vision, etc is very good. Yeah it's true, we can drink at work...just use your head.

Cons

The pay is the number one reason people leave. You will make 10%+ less than your titles average for the area. If you have already put in 15 years somewhere and have a sizeable egg compounding already this is an incredible place to be "out to pasture". The company bonuses might as well just be a swift kick to the...

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5.0
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Pros

The people and the culture! Mostly very helpful, smart, fun loving group of employees. NI hired a lot for culture fit and that made the day to day a lot of fun.

Cons

Company vision from the higher ups suffered greatly after the pandemic.

3.0
Mar 30, 2026
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Pros

Work with a lot of smart folks

Cons

Management could have provided support to the team rather than asked employees to work harder

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