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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

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
3.0
Jul 9, 2024

Not Bad

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Had a good culture when I was there in terms of management and how they treated us as employees and giving us resources. Most people were welcoming, the benefits were great, and campus was beautiful.

Cons

Some of the more senior engineers had a stuck up attitude and did an awful job of explaining things / training me on things that were so esoteric and company-specific, and then would complain I took time away from them, and act like I should know how to do it now. Additionally, the debug tools were so outdated and buggy, that at times I'd spend 70%-80% of my week debugging the debugger. Was an absolute headache of a job a lot of the time working in RF driver development.

4.0
May 29, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I love the people at NI. My coworkers were the best part of working at NI. NI also has pretty competitive healthcare benefits and good work-life balance.

Cons

In my experience there are a lot of managers that were effectively individual contributors, but not good people managers. The people managers got their roles because they were effective at being an IC. I think NI needs to be more intentional about finding people with the right emotional skills.

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