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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

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 Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
17 Nov 2018

A company going downhill

Recommend
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Pros

- Ample learning opportunities - Good starting point for entry level engineers - Great colleagues

Cons

- No room to grow - Lack of honesty/visibility from management - Office is constantly shrinking

1.0
5 May 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Commercialise advanced technologies for instrumentation. You learn a lot if you like to learn by yourself. No other pros besides this.

Cons

Bad management/despotic attitude from Managing Director. Racist distribution of work, most technical and sales roles to Indians and Middle Easters, easy roles to anyone else. Most technical people get trapped since they come from overseas on temporal working visas, so they can not apply for other jobs. You are more likely to get hirer there if you have a temporary work visa. Very valuable people have resigned year after year even some managers; submissive not-bright staff remains. Arrogant attitude of managers, towards supporting sales and technical staff. No one should question them is what they think. Do not follow proper procedures defined at NI Corp. in USA. Such as not verifying customers’ accounts to provide them support. Practice to do favours to potential customers to get them buying NI products, very inefficient process, very few people buy. Incompetent marketing team members. Very inefficient for prioritising work, main management proposes non-sense projects without doing proper market research. Quite behind reaching sales targets compared to rest of NI offices around the world. Working hours 8:20 am to 6:30 pm (usually).

3.0
3 May 2018

Application Engineer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great place to start after University

Cons

No real progress after a couple of years. A bit of a dead end.

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