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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

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      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Compensation and benefits

      3.1

      Senior management

      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
      Feb 4, 2023

      NI culture has changed

      Director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      NI’s customers are developing some of the world’s most impactful and innovative products. It is inspiring to work with customers on how NI products/solutions can enable them.

      Cons

      The culture has eroded with the current CEO. Outside hires at senior levels have brought different perspectives that are good and bad. The negative is blending different cultures without active management of what we want the cultures to be. I’ve seen a significant increase in internal politics and several undeserving promotions. This was rarely the case in the past.

      1.0
      Apr 14, 2021

      What happened after Dr T retired ?

      It engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Complete culture change. Shifted from “let’s do great things’ to extreme bean counting (CFO appointed as new CEO and CIO ex Freescale CFO appointed as new CFO. Following a few mediocre years a new CEO (long time NI engineer) was appointed. Hopefully this new leadership will restore balance between finances and engineering.

      Cons

      Flat org structure. Few opportunities for advancement. Comp increases are not equitably distributed. IT leadership scores low in ITSM maturity.

      2.0
      Jan 14, 2021

      Used to have a "No Layoffs" Policy, BUT that died with Original CEO Departure

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Before original CEO left, the company had a very "we are in this together" attitude, which created a sense of camaraderie and collaboration where all employees felt valued and their contributions truly appreciated.

      Cons

      Most managers at the company have technical backgrounds with little to no experience actually managing and leading people. They are promoted out of technical roles they are actually great at and made into people managers because the company had no clear career paths laid out for people who achieved their level of expertise in their respective technical roles. They were basically "failed forward" not by their failures, but due to the company's failure of career path vision, and as a result, most managers have no idea how to actually be good people managers and fail at it regularly. Managers stopped collaborating with their teams and employees were basically turned into task-monkeys. Management adopted a "your input no longer matters so shut up and do the job we tell you to do or get laid off" attitude. It became an incredibly toxic work environment.

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