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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
2.0
Nov 20, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great for engineers who want to do the bare minimum and get promoted. The CFO and CRO as well as several middle managers and Directors are good ones, yet they are silenced by people who want to make their presence known and instill fear into their peers and employees.

Cons

The CEOs EA is the laziest and yet most entitled person in the entire organization. She hires her friends and has anyone that speaks out against her fired. She is the final voice for you to get promoted (while not being your direct boss) so even if your boss wanted to promote you they couldn't without her approval. She has publicly stated that she would never be fired because the CEO would have "white man's guilt". She has this reputation that she is a champion for the role but in reality she is the biggest deterrent as she is only out for herself and those that produce her work for her.

2.0
Oct 7, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Quite a bit of autonomy to do the work you want and shape your career. People are generally very nice.

Cons

Lots of leadership without experience outside of NI or even within the field/area they lead. Lots of nepotism and politics that can play to your favor if you play the game, but bite you if you don’t. They promote tenure with the company (not credentials/qualifications or actual experience) and if you mess up in one department and are one of the “favored ones,” you’ll just get promoted to another area of the business, whether or not you know anything about it. Accountability is pretty much unheard of and lack of experienced leadership really hurts the productivity of the teams and employees who actually have to execute and do the work to run the business.

3.0
Feb 11, 2019

It was fun while it lasted

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Eclectic group of talented and smart people with a desire to create a positive work culture.

Cons

Leadership is an issue. So much of NI’s talent is legacy and homegrown. Engineers running a Marketing organization. It’s not clear what motivates decision making and there is certainly some Management house cleaning that needs to take place.

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