National Instruments reviews

Low pay/benefits compared to industry average for job/experience/title. Despite the company beating sales targets and growth year after year, we were continuously passed over for company bonuses. Because they must be 'Cautiously Optimistic' about the future.. Most raises were barely in line with cost of living increase (~3-4%). Most people there 'drink the koolaid' and believe working there is SO much better than anywhere else, because of the 'culture' and how it's worth taking lower pay. But most have never worked anywhere else.. Their benefits are subpar as well. Once I finally decided to leave with my experience, my new job/company brought a 50% increase to my salary with even better benefits. Management.. That can make or break your job. There are some EXCELLENT managers and leaders there, and I was lucky enough to have one for the last couple years. But there are also SO many bad/inept/dumb managers there, that only get promoted by being loyal, vocal, and brown-noising the higher ups. It's astonishing to wonder how certain individuals got to be promoted and are so high up on the chain (to even VP level..) Management itself is a very tightly knit group, and they don't let anyone in unless they are swimming in the koolaid.

Very deep management stack balanced on thin layer of developers. Churn culture has been adopted throughout most of the software org. Devs interview for new or existing jobs roughly annually, often accompanied by layoffs. Skill specialization replaced mostly with plug-n-play dev model, which still seems to be in an experimental phase. Large cap ambitions with small cap execution. If you thrive on chaos and churn, apply within.