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3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(720 total reviews)

Alex Davern

62% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

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4.0
Nov 29, 2017
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Pros

Pretty good starting salaries. Excellent benefits, 401k matching, and stock purchasing plan. Regular parties. The people are pretty nice. Also an on-site gym and doctor's office.

Cons

The salaries aren't competitive for a mid-level engineer. Culture is a bit stuffy and the old-timers there vary wildly in ability and seem to be untouchable by management. I had a UX lead who doesn't answer e-mails, he just doesn't do it, and was never reprimanded for it. I also had principal engineer completely break my feature and call a meeting to blame me for it when our demo went poorly. There are also problems with tech leads and architects being so overworked they can't review code, which creates a huge bottleneck for lower level engineers. (You can imagine the panic when you've been waiting for a code review for a week and it comes back two days prior to end-of-sprint requesting major changes). Also: the feature you pour your heart and soul into is going to be outsourced as soon as it's stable, and heaven help you if you have to coordinate with off-shore teams because nobody tells them anything.

3.0
Nov 19, 2017

NI builds great products, but could do better

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Brilliant, personable colleagues in R&D who advocate for each other and collaborate extremely effectively. The opportunity to develop cutting-edge hardware and software that our customers love. Autonomy as a result of working in a remote office and working on a product line with consistent revenue growth.

Cons

The Marketing organization is a chaotic mess-- full of self-important, questionably competent blowhards who tend to blame R&D for their misguided, non-evidence-based decisions. Too many of the executives have never worked anywhere else and lack perspective. Too much navel gazing about below-market salary and benefits and too little action. The company has too many managers-- why NI needs 30+ VPs is unclear. Some managers at Corporate seem so obsessed with planning that it is unclear if they actually ever get much done. We need to hire more engineers and to pay the good ones we already have competitive salaries.

4.0
Nov 13, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The Company offers a great work-life environment, a fantastic office space, and meaningful work. The people are great to work with.

Cons

Very political and cliquish, but you have that everywhere. The company does pay on the very low side of the going wages. While the company executives admit this and state they want to correct it; it will likely take 3 to 5 years for it to correct itself.

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