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3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(2,458 total reviews)

Alex Davern

63% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

National Instruments has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,458 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The National Instruments employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
3.0
Jun 15, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

This is very good place to work for starting engineers and students but not for professionals. Very good product's and software you can get lot of knowledge.

Cons

At this company individual abilities dos not make sense only grope, for example when grope can't solve some problem and there is some person who can, they will ask you to help them and do it, but after they will say that this is theiere work and nothing to person who realy did it. There is one more problem, they will hire chemicals, economist, mathematicals and so on as an AE, after some time this AE's will became PSE, AES or SE's, but they do not have required knowledge as they are not ab specialized in this are. For example why R&D in Silicon Valley (former employee's from other company's) can develop high quality RF hardware, at same time R&D in Austin (these are mainly former AE's) can't develop even middle quality RF hardware. They need to change this practice.

4.0
Jun 7, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company is very visionary and does a good job of instilling corporate pride Transparent management Young vibrant culture Good health benefits

Cons

Prides themselves on hiring the best and brightest but pays average to less than average Many of the best employees leave after 5 years for better opportunities

5.0
Jun 6, 2009

Great company with long-term vision

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Friendly employees and great culture (negligible politics) Very open communication among leadership and employees Products/technologies redefine measurement and automation Company leads many of the markets it serves Company growth provides career paths Opportunities to work in worldwide locations Commitment to corporate responsibility and promoting science/engineering among the youth

Cons

Consensus decision making style sometimes slows down decision making Engineering-centric culture is perceived negatively by some non-engineers Compensation philosophy is 50th percentile

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