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      National Instruments Staff Software Engineer reviews

      3.1

      51% would recommend to a friend

      (86 total reviews)

      Alex Davern

      40% approve of CEO

      21% positive business outlook

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      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      4.1

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      2.4

      Senior management

      2.3

      Compensation and benefits

      Staff Software Engineer employees have rated National Instruments with 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 86 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Staff Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. National Instruments is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Staff Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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      86 reviews
      3.0
      Aug 10, 2008

      Good place to start career, but limited long-term career growth opportunities

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      Pros

      Most employees are very smart, friendly, and easy to work with. Communication from management to employees is generally open, detailed, and timely. The company is very stable and profitable, which is very important these days.

      Cons

      National Instruments is a great place to start a career. You can learn a lot by working directly on a number of projects. However, there are very limited opportunities to grow your career beyond entry-level engineering positions. The management structure changes very little over time, and many of the same habits (both good and bad) are continued over the long-term.

      4.0
      Jun 14, 2008

      Safe company, interesting work, disinterested management.

      Staff software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      National Instruments provides opportunities to work in interesting and technically challenging areas with lots of flexibility in finding work that appeals to you. There are many different areas of development, and National Instruments makes it relatively easy to change from a group that isn't a good fit for you to one that you think will be better. Lots of opportunities to ride the bleeding edge of the technology curve with products based on the latest desktop and mobile processors, modern high bandwidth buses, wireless technologies, largest FPGAs, and pushing the envelope for multiprocessor software design. You get to work with lots of very smart and motivated people.

      Cons

      Irrational budgeting and purchasing policies lead to a large imbalance in the quality of equipment and supplies available between development groups. After promotion to senior software engineer, there's nowhere to go - almost nobody gets promoted beyond it, and there's virtually no other inducement to work harder and innovate. Buzzword bingo seems to dominate executive thinking. Greenwashing campaigns that are directed internally as well as externally, playing "me-too" with a lot of Microsoft corporate policies lead to a general feeling that they don't listen to what their own employees want so much as what the management of other big companies want.

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