National Instruments reviews

When I started there, the garages and virtually every cube was occupied and the place buzzed with activity and promise. It is almost a ghost town now and the culture has gone way down hill. They don't even admit to laying anyone off but they have been doing it slowly for several years. When you make the bean counter the CEO, that is what happens. Below market pay and a reluctance to adopt leading edge technology and processes in IT. They are following paths I have seen before in terms of "pay for performance" and off-shoring that are guaranteed to change the company culture in the US in irreversible ways.

The salary is terrible. They keep saying they are going to fix it, but even their internal ratios prove just how far you are behind and show how little they are doing about it. Some reactive work that comes your way is not very exciting or meaningful. I suppose this is true of many jobs, but it is just very apparent here. You wear multiple hats, even the ones you don't want to wear, and ones that don't grow your career. Management is very hit or miss. I've had several managers who are project managers, not people managers. Rarely do they ever inspire you to be better or provide guidance on career growth. You shouldn't come here if you expect the company to grow you, you must grow yourself.