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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
May 1, 2014
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Pros

Great products, interesting people, fun environment, lots of energetic and enthusiastic people. Corporate values are solid. Work life balance is good.

Cons

Promotions and transfers can take some time depending on your division. Performance reviews can be a bit impersonal. IT could use an upgrade.

3.0
Apr 30, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great work environment, company is engaged in the community. NI creates software and hardware that contribute to achieving great things in the world (in terms of health, technology, education, etc.), so you definitely feel like you contribute to something useful. Folks at NI are bright and you definitely learn a lot.

Cons

Salaries are on the low-end. Company bonus was insignificant this year.

3.0
Apr 21, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Job security is the main reason people stay at this company. Not sure the current climate, but you'd have to do something pretty serious to get fired. A great place to start a career and get some experience.

Cons

NI is a pretty good place for entry level engineers and the few who the company feels it really needs and compensates reasonably well. Other than that, I've never worked with so many brilliant yet underpaid coworkers anywhere else. Their goal for paying people is 80% of median, so not even average. That's their goal! When the company hit $1B in revenue everything changed. No longer focused on culture, no longer care about the people. They are focused only on the bottom line and growing by 20% every quarter YOY. They had great growth last year, but missed their operating margin. Employees got a really small profit sharing bonus and CFO/COO got a 20% raise. Leadership also is changing, Dr. Truchard is well liked and trusted but he's retiring soon.

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