National Instruments reviews about "manager"

Low salary, not too smart managers

Manager not prepared, low salaries,

Managers have been here comfortably for most of their career. Mine did not know how to motivate or inspire, so he controlled and micro managed instead. If you are a US worker that has not yet been replaced with a cheaper worker in Costa Rica or Hungary, just wait. Almost everyone in my meetings speaks English as a second language. People complain about low salaries don’t understand pay reflects the market value of the company. If it’s easy to hire someone for low salary, they will do it. It’s all about low cost here.

Less Pay, no growth, Self-Obsessed managers. Some managers are not fit for any job, forget taking lead management roles as they are highly unprofessional and have anger issues. Some managers are accidentally hired or pushed towards management because of lack of technical acumen. Those managers contribution is almost nil and is rotting this branch inside out. Austin senior leadership is having similar issues and hence the company is also going down. In the name of autonomy some people have ganged up at the top of the chain and hardly produce any fruitful output but claim most of the dwindling perks allocated for high performance. Company's revenue is stagnated from past 10 years and is hovering around 1 to 1.4 billion. Company has no vision especially for Bangalore branch. Teams are created/shut randomly to serve random needs and employees are shuffled across the teams. That is one of the reasons why you would not find any decent senior engineer left in the company. If you are fresher or planning to join the company on death bed, think twice. You will mostly work on native technologies that are of no use outside the company. Less learning. Hikes and Promotions are also random. Bonuses formula is such that total bonus received in 5 years will be less than 1 bonus of other companies. No RSUs. Only sub-groups in RF are doing good. Every other group in NI Bangalore is struggling. They are not even able to retain the admins and HRs forget the senior technical staff of good caliber.

Poor compensation - go somewhere that will pay you what you’re worth. Poor management - you either get stuck with a micromanager or a manager that barely knows you exist. You won’t be shown that you’re appreciated, that your contributions matter, that you’re part of the team. Lots of office politics. It’s all about who you know and what you’re willing to do to get where you want to be. No clear direction at all. They preach change but nothing ever changes. Only some people get exit interviews. What is that? Someone that had only been there barely one year got an exit interview. I worked there 11 years and did not get an exit interview. They don’t care about you! They don’t want to know what they can do to improve. I’m not shocked by how many former colleagues have left NI in the short time since I left. They need to realize the great talent they’re losing.