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      3.7

      68% would recommend to a friend

      (376 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

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      2.0
      Jun 11, 2014

      My NI Experience

      Staff software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Great co-workers, Great products! Great campus. Great work life balance!

      Cons

      Poor management: my managers change once ever year on average preventing me from advancing in my career. Also, the general quality of managers is poor. It's been my experience that they don't really know how to grow people. Poor salaries. There are too many internal systems and procedures. As a result productivity is greatly slowed down.

      2.0
      Jun 8, 2014

      It's time to pivot

      Software group manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1. A great place to start your career. 2. Immense learning from peers who are ever willing to help 3. Tons of opportunities to learn from other teams

      Cons

      1. Compensation 2. Recognition 3. Trust I am surprised at the downward progression of a company I used to love and possibly idolize. It's a well known fact that NI pays average salaries for the market. Initially, it was OK given the overall benefits package but as the years progressed even that wasn't cutting it. The company definitely worked its way through the downturn without any layoffs. However, a lack of growth deemed as a direct correlation on the bottom line for employee compensation isn't fair on them when executives are being pumped with higher bonuses. Employer communication has gotten worse and there is definite lack of trust in management. Honestly, I feel bad about where things are after a decade of my association with NI.

      3.0
      Jun 8, 2014

      culture is not a career

      Product support engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      I went the AE-PSE path that technical new hires usually take. I did well in both, won some awards and ended up staff level before I took off. I chose NI out of college for a few reasons I think are still valid: 1) Austin is a fun place to be the first years out of college. This isn't related to career at all but I think it provides a good way to come out of your engineering shell and establish a work life balance by finding people and things you like and can engage in while driving a career. No one should be the 35yo engineering stereotype. 2) The exposure to different engineering disciplines and companies in AE is unmatched by anything but a marketing or sales role. 3) NI technology is valuable and innovative. Some reasons I think I over-weighted are: 1)Stability. If you can get into NI, you have other options anyway, but you will have to try to get fired. While this acts like insurance while you get your feet under you to be industry competitive, you just don't need it. 2) Great place to work. Form your own opinion on this. No statistic will ever say what culture you personally will enjoy. 3) ELP. ELP is a "marketing construct" (the guy who started the program's words, not mine), not a job reality.

      Cons

      I left the company after three years for a few different reasons: 1) Management overhead. It is ridiculous how many managers there are in R&D and how poorly they function at developing talent. 2) Inability to take risks to provide opportunities, on both an individual and product level. 3) Lack of performance on an individual and product level. This has officially been recognized within NI as critical issue causing growth problems. My opinion is that it is heavily tied into the first two issues To a new hire I think the bottom line is that this is a learning opportunity, not a career company.

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