National Instruments reviews about "layoff"

- Lots of propaganda. You hear the same messages for reasons the company isn't growing. Get used to hearing "economic headwinds". Even when the economy is going good for everyone else on earth, somehow NI faces headwinds to blame for no growth. - You'll be brainwashed into thinking NI's benefits are good. When I interviewed around and where I ended up, there are far better benefits AND unique benefits that NI employees have no idea exist because of said brainwashing. - It used to be more "like family". That slowly changed over the last 5 years and with the recent layoffs, it was handled terribly. No emotion, purely business. That makes for a toxic environment. No loyalty to those who were loyal to NI through very lean times. - Brand credibility/reputation is low. It used to be when you interviewed elsewhere, they would think "You worked at NI, I hear they hire the brightest" and it carried weight to help get another job. Now, other employers realize those days are over and it won't carry any positive connotation. - LOTS of managers that do nothing. While the developers crank away and make good products (that doesn't include NXG), managers sit around in meetings and surf the web. How demoralizing is that.

At most average salary while trying to hire top of the line people. Forced attrition and arbitrary layoffs if attrition is not fast enough, seems to be the way the new CEO tries to match stock market expectations. Expect your workload to grow while the best people leave.

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.

All high performing employees that I know have left, are leaving or are planning to leave for greener pastures. The culture is very bad now, it turned toxic since the new CEO took over a few years ago. Lots of short term pressure and micromanagement (if you don't finish by Friday you'll have to come to work in the weekend). There is the perception that everything must be done for short term gains and deadlines, to increase short term revenue and boost investor confidence. Lots of shortcuts. An obscene number of politics, backstabbing and finger pointing when things inevitably go wrong. There is a constant attrition goal and hiring freeze going on for years coupled with small random layoffs and an upper management focused on moving development to lower cost countries in Asia. The company is a shadow of what it once was under Dr. T.

- Pay is not competitive (which is apparently being addressed with layoffs) - Company revenue is not growing fast enough, leading to painful trade offs and a drop in morale

When Dr. T retired in 2017, the heart left NI. The new CEO is very focused on the bottom line at the expense of the employees. Layoffs of people seemingly selected at random, truly inexplicable reporting structures implemented, and a change in retirement policy that robbed 20+ year veterans of the company of a huge amount of their retirement. It's truly sad to me to see such a lack of respect and appreciation for people who spent their entire careers at NI. Pay is dramatically lower than industry norms. The management team hodls quarterly town halls saying they are "looking into" the benefits and compensation packages, but nothing ever changes. A few years ago they raised the entry level vacation accrual by a week but didn't cascade that increase to employees who had already reached that level, so it basically penalized people who'd spent several years at the company.

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