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      3.7

      68% would recommend to a friend

      (2,459 total reviews)

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      62% approve of CEO

      46% positive business outlook

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      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
      4.0
      Jul 18, 2014

      Great Place for Recent Graduates and Senior Professionals Looking for Work-Life Balance

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Strong culture focused on teamwork. Community-oriented business that dedicates employee time and money to education initiatives. Great program for building recent college grads into engineering leaders. Core focus on customer success and satisfaction. Fantastic CEO!

      Cons

      Must be an engineer to advance, even in marketing-focused roles. Too internally focused on building consensus and having the "perfect plan." Slow-paced, meeting-obsessed culture.

      3.0
      Jun 8, 2014

      culture is not a career

      Product support engineer
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      Pros

      I went the AE-PSE path that technical new hires usually take. I did well in both, won some awards and ended up staff level before I took off. I chose NI out of college for a few reasons I think are still valid: 1) Austin is a fun place to be the first years out of college. This isn't related to career at all but I think it provides a good way to come out of your engineering shell and establish a work life balance by finding people and things you like and can engage in while driving a career. No one should be the 35yo engineering stereotype. 2) The exposure to different engineering disciplines and companies in AE is unmatched by anything but a marketing or sales role. 3) NI technology is valuable and innovative. Some reasons I think I over-weighted are: 1)Stability. If you can get into NI, you have other options anyway, but you will have to try to get fired. While this acts like insurance while you get your feet under you to be industry competitive, you just don't need it. 2) Great place to work. Form your own opinion on this. No statistic will ever say what culture you personally will enjoy. 3) ELP. ELP is a "marketing construct" (the guy who started the program's words, not mine), not a job reality.

      Cons

      I left the company after three years for a few different reasons: 1) Management overhead. It is ridiculous how many managers there are in R&D and how poorly they function at developing talent. 2) Inability to take risks to provide opportunities, on both an individual and product level. 3) Lack of performance on an individual and product level. This has officially been recognized within NI as critical issue causing growth problems. My opinion is that it is heavily tied into the first two issues To a new hire I think the bottom line is that this is a learning opportunity, not a career company.

      3.0
      Apr 21, 2014

      Used to have great culture, always pay less than industry/regional average.

      Database marketing coordinator
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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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