National Instruments reviews

If you aren't an engineer there isn't much career growth at all. You are viewed as more of the help then anything else. Yet they expect you to act just like the engineers and want you to volunteer for things yet they tell your managers not to pay you for volunteered time. The way they give raises is disheartening no matter what position you are in and sometimes you may not even get one at all.

Management needs serious work and every group operates differently, so no one ever really knows what is going on or how NI's processes work (which, by the way, are usually convoluted, fluffy, and unnecessary). If you bring matters to your manager's attention, s/he gets defensive and micromanages you until you quit. Career opportunities and growth aren't really possible unless you're an engineer, and there's only so far a technical writer can go at NI because no one values documentation or creativity. NI boasts about its "culture," work-life balance, and the work hard play hard mentality, but in the past two years I have never seen any type of culture that isn't in any other tech company. Every tech company lets you wear cargo shorts and flip flops. NI markets its company to fresh grads who need a job, even if that means the salary is 45% less than market value. Every week, at least one person in my department quits. The turnover here is outrageous, but what do you expect when you exclusively hire new grads, devalue them, and pay them like a full-time graduate student? NI needs to wake up. Employees do not like working here.