National Instruments Staff Software Engineer reviews

Poor Hikes - Even though they pay well in the beginning, they make up for it by poor hikes. In the end, one would wonder if you'd be better off somewhere else. Unique Technology - Paralyzes your aspirations and chances of working outside Poor Training - Quite often, you will be stuck with things you don't know and you'll have to do your own research. While it seems to be good, this only results in lack-luster performance on your part or poor quality, not to mention waste of time. Highly Polarized Recruitment Policy - Instead of going for reputed colleges, the recruitment process is relying on local colleges way too much. This, as a result, is lowering the quality of engineers being recruited. Also, untrained/inexperienced interviewers lead to poor judgment. Lack of transparency in compensation policies - There is no way I can know whether they're telling the truth about how things are with my peers. Its just a matter of trust, and judging by their overall policies, it is very hard to do that.

- Stable employment with no lay offs means that you sacrifice stability for in ability to advance or get pay raises... keeping the fat makes less resources for the solid performers - young culture = low experience, hence they have processes and micro management that makes a person who is intelligent and doesn't need a baby sitter have a tough time getting around the process to just get something basic done - Consensus culture is a pain, decisions are slow... software teams try to design everything before they start implementing anything... and that never works... you have to prototype - managers are young and in experienced - too much LabView Koolaid..(Labview is an engineering tool... not a programming language)