National Instruments reviews

You have to have a certain kind of personality to work here and enjoy it. This is a heavy engineer culture, so you get a lot of very straightforward, logical, traditional people who are very comfortable going to work everyday and living out the American Dream. The lack of cultural diversity and creative expression can very quickly become suffocating if that's not your thing. Especially if you're a new grad and don't have much experience choosing a workplace yet, be aware of this. Don't just go for NI's impressive name, but be sure to evaluate how comfortable you really feel here during the interview process. The other major problem is salary. This is particularly a problem with the software people. NI continues to try to sell candidates and employees on its stability and reasonable benefits, but it's still thinking like a hardware company. NI isn't fighting for software devs against companies like Agilent; it's going up against Google and Apple and Amazon and every other company in the world willing to pay to attract top software talent. In the last year of my employment, the (fairly small) org I was in saw probably around 10 people quit. Many of the senior people have had increasing amounts of work and stress placed on them, without anything close to competitive pay.

The pay isn't up to par, but the pressure is. Very high pressure work environment. Management has also recently implemented new processes to micromanage the sales team, so you constantly feel like you're under the magnifying glass. Long hours of mindless work are rewarded, not successful intelligent work practices, and the new processes are taking away the flexibility to work your own way.