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Great place to start a career. - Software Engineer National Instruments Employee Review

5.0
Jan 12, 2010
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Pros

There are always opportunities to drive your career at NI, especially when you come straight out of college. I worked in the Applications Engineering department for about a year and the atmosphere is great. You meet a lot of really great and driven engineers and management is always making sure that you have what you need to succeed there. If you want to be uber-techical, there are roles for you to develop that. If you want to try your hand at marketing, there are opportunities for that, and everything in between. If you are driven, you will succeed there, since there are always opportunities to move around and do what you love.

Cons

The pay is fair, but not great. Many of the people I knew starting out would work long hours, and some still do, but the pay doesn't really reflect this. Of course, they were working on things that they would probably be doing in their free time anyway, like building a car that can be controlled by an iPhone, or a Rubik's cube playing robot. However, if you want a 9-5 job that you can leave as soon as the clock hits 5, it might not be for you.

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5.0
Apr 13, 2026
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Pros

The people and the culture! Mostly very helpful, smart, fun loving group of employees. NI hired a lot for culture fit and that made the day to day a lot of fun.

Cons

Company vision from the higher ups suffered greatly after the pandemic.

3.0
Mar 30, 2026
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Pros

Work with a lot of smart folks

Cons

Management could have provided support to the team rather than asked employees to work harder

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