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      3.7

      68% would recommend to a friend

      (2,459 total reviews)

      Alex Davern

      62% approve of CEO

      46% positive business outlook

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      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Compensation and benefits

      3.1

      Senior management

      National Instruments has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,459 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The National Instruments employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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      2K reviews
      5.0
      Jun 17, 2008

      Great company, laid back, values employees

      Software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      National Instruments is a great company, I'm really happy here. NI really respects and values its employees. One of the motto's here is that we hire the best and the brightest, and we do. NI is extremely flexible on hours, vacation, etc. They have deck parties a few times a year where we all stop working at 4:30 and go outside, relax, and drink from NI-provided kegs of beer. Everyone here really takes the "work hard, play hard" mentality seriously.

      Cons

      The pay is competitive here, but it isn't the highest around. You can find higher paying jobs. You just have to ask yourself if the extra pay is worth losing all the great things about NI.

      4.0
      Jun 14, 2008

      Safe company, interesting work, disinterested management.

      Staff software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      National Instruments provides opportunities to work in interesting and technically challenging areas with lots of flexibility in finding work that appeals to you. There are many different areas of development, and National Instruments makes it relatively easy to change from a group that isn't a good fit for you to one that you think will be better. Lots of opportunities to ride the bleeding edge of the technology curve with products based on the latest desktop and mobile processors, modern high bandwidth buses, wireless technologies, largest FPGAs, and pushing the envelope for multiprocessor software design. You get to work with lots of very smart and motivated people.

      Cons

      Irrational budgeting and purchasing policies lead to a large imbalance in the quality of equipment and supplies available between development groups. After promotion to senior software engineer, there's nowhere to go - almost nobody gets promoted beyond it, and there's virtually no other inducement to work harder and innovate. Buzzword bingo seems to dominate executive thinking. Greenwashing campaigns that are directed internally as well as externally, playing "me-too" with a lot of Microsoft corporate policies lead to a general feeling that they don't listen to what their own employees want so much as what the management of other big companies want.

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