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      3.7

      68% would recommend to a friend

      (2,457 total reviews)

      Alex Davern

      63% approve of CEO

      46% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Compensation and benefits

      3.1

      Senior management

      National Instruments has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,457 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
      4.0
      Jul 10, 2008

      A Great Place to Start a Career

      Staff project engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      A great place to launch a career. Since the company is growing, there are clear paths to take your career upward. Also, since the company is focused around R&D (most of the senior manangement came from that deparartment) a clearly defined technical track is available - no need to leave an engineering position in order to achieve a promotion. Since the vast majority of incoming employees have just completed their undergraduate degrees, the company feels very young, and I've made some of my best friends in Austin from my pool of coworkers. Austin is a reason to work here in itself.

      Cons

      Pay is slightly below average. Management continues to act as if they are a small startup and continually promote a 20-40% growth message without providing clear direction how that is achievable.

      4.0
      Jul 8, 2008

      the "best and the brightest..." but to what end?

      Applications engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Phenomenal coworkers and a rich work atmosphere. NI's philosophy of recruiting the "best and the brightest" really shines in the quality of people it employs. Extremely bright, fun, diverse, out-going people people hired into the company make everything else tolerable. Flexible scheduling. Very little micro-management. Plentiful opportunities and encouragement to increase company knowledge. Very environmentally conscious. National Instruments does a good job of providing employees outlets for creativity, though it sometimes neglects to properly acknowledge achievements of creativity. Granted, this will happen with any company, but it seems that tactful self-promotion is the preferred method of praise at NI, which can be a bit awkward. Lots of travel opportunities--for the first year or two.

      Cons

      Not many opportunities for vertical career advancement; career openings appear in more of a horizontal position. Sometimes it's hard to be motivated for extra work when the reward doesn't necessarily move your career, say, three steps forward. Rather, it moves your career one step forward and then two steps to the left or the right. Managers act more like motivational orators than genuine logistics coordinators and mentors. You ask a manager a question, and assuming a ten-minute reply from a manager, the reply will have the following breakdown: 8 minutes will consist of compulsory enthusiasm and praise to you, and in the remaining 2 minutes might be the answer you wanted. The rich work atmosphere is regularly clouded by typical run-of-the-mill corporate hoopla. (The hype has good intentions, of course.)

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