Jan 14, 2014
National Instruments reviews about "work environment"
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4.0
Jul 2, 2013
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Pros
great people to work with, fun environment
Cons
not much option for career within local branch
4.0
Sep 7, 2013
Great leadership and environment, excellent atmosphere, but difficult to move within the company.
Current employee, more than 5 years
Austin, TX
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Pros
The leadership at NI is very strong and maintains good communication with employees. There are lots of fun and exciting things to work on. The workplace environment is top notch and work-life balance is good.
Cons
Salaries are not the most competitive. It is sometimes difficult to move to different departments within National Instruments. Leadership sometimes seems to be overly cautious with company direction.
5.0
Jul 16, 2013
Really great work environment, and interesting job roles
Current employee, more than 1 year
Austin, TX
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Pros
Start up environment with the stability of a larger company.Large number of roles that you can work in with the same skill set, so it is possible to find something that suits you.
Cons
none I can think of the top of my head
4.0
Oct 7, 2013
NI is an easy and engaging workplace with a lot of great people, though they do not pay competetive salaries.
Current employee, more than 3 years
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Pros
Easy and friendly work environment. Engaging projects and work throughout the organizations. Social and connected network of employees. Very solid and stable employer through good and bad economic times.
Cons
The company tends to be spread out a lot, which provides for extreme variance from manager to manager, causing some concerns about differing treatment of employees. NI also will not pay competitive salaries, and has not attempted to meet the market inflation rates or cost of living changes for employee compensation. It's a great place to work, just don't expect to grow your salary quickly, if at all.
3.0
Apr 11, 2013
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Pros
Excellent work environment, very smart people to work with Relaxed environment, flexible hours
Cons
Too much middle management No salary raises, or very small ones
3.0
Jun 19, 2013
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Pros
Very nice people, flexibility in time , work from home sometimes, good attitude, relaxed environment, relaxed dressing, consensus driven
Cons
Still struggling with process, vacation policy poor, too consensus driven sometimes
4.0
Jul 10, 2013
Very happy and satisfied with the job, could pay more
Current employee, more than 1 year
Austin, TX
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Pros
National Instruments has a great work environment. They are all about work/life balance and flexible with you.
Cons
Gets away with paying less than industry standard by creating such a flexible work environment.
1.0
Jul 18, 2013
NI Penang R&D: A place for fresh to learn but not for experience to work
Current employee, more than 1 year
Bayan Lepas
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Pros
- opportunity to learn for fresh - guidelines and guidelines - promote good environment to work - expatriate from US to Penang
Cons
- incompetent managers on important functional area, manager does not want to acknowledge it as "fail" case and have to keep the position. - no career path and development - very low salary compared to other MNC in Penang - unable to on par with others MNC in Penang on total compensation and benefits - good environment to work is not able to compensate the disadvantage of monetary - recognition is always not coming on time... sometime no at all and sometime get it when almost saturated... management is less sensitive on this or no sense on the important of this... - favouritism/ practice selective listening on issue raised up/ filtering info from low level to top level management - only manager will review employee performance but not the other way with quantitative measurement. Employee's only chance is to answer 2 structural questions to feedback on manager but this document is send back to same manager. There is no close loop to provide feedback and improvement to manager - tough promotion process in R&D - reduce career opportunities with more expatriate assignment and indirectly increase cost
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