National Instruments reviews about "compensation"

Very low compensation. Business decisions made at a glacial pace. Many unskilled managers. Executives do not seem to value employees.

Benefits are woefully out of wack in the 3 and 10-year career range. My compensation and benefits are significantly less than my peers who work elsewhere. The company's products and customers are very technical, so folks who have engineering educations often end up doing most business functions (marketing, sales, etc.) at the top, middle, and bottom levels, which can sometimes lead to a lack of both diversity in thought process and demographics. The organizational structure is pretty flat (few levels of management) so most employees have autonomy to make decisions within their roles and teams. This also means that loud voices or long-time employees with loud voices can sometimes be the impetus for organizational change in the wrong direction. NI sells a lot of different products and solutions which means that employees have an opportunity to work on a lot of different projects and serve different audiences. This also means that the company changes organizational structure and focus often. I have had 4 different roles and 6 different managers in 5 years.

Slow career development, subpar compensation

to much org changes. the compensation is not great compared to what the industry have

- Compensation is a huge taboo

All high performing employees that I know have left, are leaving or are planning to leave for greener pastures. The culture is very bad now, it turned toxic since the new CEO took over a few years ago. Lots of short term pressure and micromanagement (if you don't finish by Friday you'll have to come to work in the weekend). There is the perception that everything must be done for short term gains and deadlines, to increase short term revenue and boost investor confidence. Lots of shortcuts. An obscene number of politics, backstabbing and finger pointing when things inevitably go wrong. There is a constant attrition goal and hiring freeze going on for years coupled with small random layoffs and an upper management focused on moving development to lower cost countries in Asia. The company is a shadow of what it once was under Dr. T.

- Less exposure for career development. Less opportunity for growth and get promotion. - Poor compensation compared to similar companies. You will be paid same as like before even though you have to work for 3 manpower's job. - Poor new management, lack of communication. They didn't make open communication about what's exactly going on in this company. - Horrible on claim management process.

When Dr. T retired in 2017, the heart left NI. The new CEO is very focused on the bottom line at the expense of the employees. Layoffs of people seemingly selected at random, truly inexplicable reporting structures implemented, and a change in retirement policy that robbed 20+ year veterans of the company of a huge amount of their retirement. It's truly sad to me to see such a lack of respect and appreciation for people who spent their entire careers at NI. Pay is dramatically lower than industry norms. The management team hodls quarterly town halls saying they are "looking into" the benefits and compensation packages, but nothing ever changes. A few years ago they raised the entry level vacation accrual by a week but didn't cascade that increase to employees who had already reached that level, so it basically penalized people who'd spent several years at the company.