National Instruments reviews

After a couple of years you will have learned most of what there is to learn about data acquisition hardware design (I was a hardware engineer there). Being underpaid and underappreciated it is time to move on at that point. Although senior management has their act together, the mid-level managers that I dealt with were generally not very competent. Mid-level managers promoted a culture of finger pointing, blame deflection, and kissing up ahead of teamwork. This type of culture can be toxic for a technology company, which is proven by the company's financial and stock performance the last several years. The company touted the fact that it could/should grow 20-40% a year; that hasn't come close to happening since I began working there in 2001, and probably will never happen if its culture doesn't change. Unless if you are fresh out of college I think that you would better serve your career by working somewhere else.

If you're not an engineer, you're a second-class employee, end of story. NI has always lagged on salaries, even for engineers, that's why they hire them young and feed them kool-aid. If you don't have an engineering degree, your salary will be even less competitive and you will get less respect, even for the work in your field of expertise.