National Instruments reviews about "compensation"

The compensation is a little bit low compared to other companies.

Compensation for software jobs is low compared to similar software companies

The R&D department has 2 big problems: Centralization of knowledge and free riders. "Key People" will not share their knowledge and will try to micromanage the direction of the product. Good luck with code reviews, this people will want to review every single line of code, creating a bottleneck. There's a big amount of so-called "Dinosaurs", people that have been working for NI for more than 10 years, and now have 0 motivation to give more than the minimum. NI has a "fire someone as last resort" policy, this people take advantage of that. If you are a new grad do not let them "brainwash" you with their "You'll not find a better culture anywhere", there are also other good places to work with better culture, perks and most importantly: compensation. The company is very open stating that they will not try to be a "Great place to work" anymore and that they will not try to have great compensation. Benefits are decent, pay is under market, bonuses are non-existent, and change is slow.

Low compensation; slow career growth; management can be tone-deaf to developer concerns and needs; management attitude leads to poor work/life balance.

Tough to change your position within an other department Terrible compensation package

Unprofessional leadership Serious incompetence of leadership Favoritism among employees Fully destroyed work-life balance No real career path No sustainable compensation plans

Other than Pros, everything. Eg compensation decision making skills poor management work overtime and so on

10% R&D Layoff. Still below average compensation. Matrix oriented re-org intended to turn everyone into fungible cogs - no matter how leadership tries to sell this, it is not a good thing for the average IC. Loss of any culture that made the company attractive. This is an R&D company that thought it was important to create a position for a SVP CMO solely focused on outbound yet we still don't have a CTO! There is no technical/R&D representation in senior leadership at all! Also, the 'Architectures and Technologies' team is generally seen as a joke by most of R&D, with little to no significant achievements in the last decade and several notable flops. Very dysfunctional inbound marketing which is being rectified by putting more and more eggs in fewer and fewer baskets by giving up on multiple product lines and focusing on a few growth opportunities which tend to be very cyclical