National Instruments reviews about "work environment"

The R&D department has 2 big problems: Centralization of knowledge and free riders. "Key People" will not share their knowledge and will try to micromanage the direction of the product. Good luck with code reviews, this people will want to review every single line of code, creating a bottleneck. There's a big amount of so-called "Dinosaurs", people that have been working for NI for more than 10 years, and now have 0 motivation to give more than the minimum. NI has a "fire someone as last resort" policy, this people take advantage of that. If you are a new grad do not let them "brainwash" you with their "You'll not find a better culture anywhere", there are also other good places to work with better culture, perks and most importantly: compensation. The company is very open stating that they will not try to be a "Great place to work" anymore and that they will not try to have great compensation. Benefits are decent, pay is under market, bonuses are non-existent, and change is slow.

1. No definite roadmap other than fancy statements 2. All the control lies with head office at Austin, Texas. They are rude and consider superior to other branches. No autonomy with branches. Every minute thing needs a nod from them. They don't want other branches to come up. 3. Lot of politics when it comes to travel opportunities. Managers and seniors abuse and never let others travel. 4. People are not valued. The concern is only about release(especially after new CEO took charge). 5. Work life balance is pathetic for some teams. Lot of late evening calls with head office (almost on daily basis). 6. A bit of sexual discrimination (men are not treated with equal respect as women) 7. Unfair work environment. Many teams don't have a lot of work. They work from 11 to 5. Some teams need to slog it out with many hours beyond work hours. Yet there is not much of a difference in salary (1-2% difference in hike). Infact promotions are easier in large teams with laid back employees. 8. Pay is a joke. There is no correlation between pay and the effort you spend. 9. This is not a place for ambitious hard workers. Career growth is non existent. They simply don't want employees to grow. 10. Employees don't get due credit. No transparency what so ever. Tech leads and managers will be all over the place and take credit for everything and mask the contributions of junior developers. (If you do 90% of a work, tech leads get credit for it. you'll get credit for 10% of the work you dint do). 11. There is no confidentiality in the conversations you have. If you discuss something in confidence with some senior person, you will most likely hear someone else discussing it in the washroom the next day!

Low compensation; slow career growth; management can be tone-deaf to developer concerns and needs; management attitude leads to poor work/life balance.

Work load is a little high

slower decision making and constant changing environment.

Descent, not great performance hikes

Lack of modernization on processes, no remote work (WFH), a big company acting as many siloed organizations, each with their ideologies. Too many dinosaurs in the chain of command that attempts to be horizontal, but the white elephants sruggle to keep up with open, modern and fresh ideas.

No cons to discuss, great work environment.