employer cover photo
employer logo
employer logo

National Instruments

Is this your company?

National Instruments reviews

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).

Reviews by job title

2K reviews
3.0
Aug 8, 2017

Built around heroes

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

National Instruments is a fairly laid back atmosphere. They lost their Great Places to Work standing a few years ago and they've been working hard to get it back. They're trying to maintain/recreate somewhat of a startup atmosphere in a large company. Not an easy thing to do. The benefits are pretty good, and everybody is pretty easy to work with.

Cons

National Instruments mostly relies on heroes to get the work done. There is not a lot of process, and even less design and documentation. They hire the best and the brightest (new graduates 99% of the time) because they rely on bright individuals rather than teams and process to keep moving forward.

3.0
Jan 4, 2017

NI

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The work life balance is not bad. Not frequently pushed hard to work long hours or weekends. I enjoy the people I work with. Understanding of family life.

Cons

Poor management direction of projects. Projects frequently get canceled in the middle. Regardless of new compensation analysis it's still much lower than it should be.

3.0
Oct 8, 2016

Senior Programmer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great work/life balance. Minimal IT interference.

Cons

Serious NIH issues, closed-mindedness. Gross over-engineering of solutions. General incompetence at management levels.

Viewing 118 - 120 of 2,459 Reviews

Glassdoor has 2,926 National Instruments reviews submitted anonymously by National Instruments employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if National Instruments is right for you.