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Good for career starters - Anonymous employee National Instruments Employee Review

4.0
Jul 21, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

A great place for engineering graduates who don't just want to stick with a technical role. NI provides opportunities to explore your career interests in Marketing, Sales, even Operations at a very early stage of your career. You will find a lot of like-minded engineers working in a very young and energetic environment.

Cons

After your first promotion from ELP to the next level, you will find your career stagnated for a while, the company has seem challenges to maintain top talents because NI is never known for high compensation, so if the job becomes less challenge and while your mid-level managers are all 30-40 years old, it is hard to keep people around after waiting for 2-3 years for the next promotion.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Smart and supportive co-workers who are willing to help and share knowledge. Exposure to full product development cycle. Generally positive company culture.

Cons

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