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Good place for starting a career - Staff Software Engineer National Instruments Employee Review

3.0
10 June 2015
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Pros

I was a software engineer in R&D this may not apply to other titles. Good work life balance, challenging and varying work and good mentorship that help ground a career.

Cons

Pay starts at average and quickly falls behind competition you should keep looking at the market or this will creep up on you. Promotions to Senior Engineer and beyond are opaque. I have often heard managers say that you get promoted "well after everyone thinks you already have that title".

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5.0
13 Apr 2026
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Pros

The people and the culture! Mostly very helpful, smart, fun loving group of employees. NI hired a lot for culture fit and that made the day to day a lot of fun.

Cons

Company vision from the higher ups suffered greatly after the pandemic.

3.0
30 Mar 2026
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Pros

Work with a lot of smart folks

Cons

Management could have provided support to the team rather than asked employees to work harder

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