National Instruments: Latest Job Openings, Reviews and Ratings & Profile wise Salary Distribution
We've calculated that the average salary at National Instruments is $64K based on 132 user-submitted salaries
A total of 35 National Instruments employees gave National Instruments an average happiness rating of 3.5 out of 5.0.
2.3A company starving itself to death with bureaucracy.
Employees are retained and promoted through attrition and risk adversity which has left the bottom 10% running the company simply because they were never required, or even encouraged, to accomplish anything productive. Systems are setup to inhibit resolution of any issue and preclude well developed innovation and initiative that would normally come from experience. The only available alternative to driving good behavior has been to offshore many jobs through attrition, finalized by layoffs, because it is easier and looks decisive in quarterly accounting in lieu of actual long-term growth. It doesn't matter what country employees reside, pay will be relatively constant but return on investment depends solely skill and environment. If you treat employees as incapable, then they will always be incapable, become less valuable instead of more and produce little over that period.
Advice is to get the right people for the job, foster their growth and empower them to attain efficiency, effectiveness and job satisfaction. These are the few things good employees look for before they start questioning marginal salary and is far better than the spite some feel by being told they are working for a great company instead of achieving something meaningful.
1.7NI is great for young engineers or R&D engineers. Unfortunately, most people with 10-20 years of tenure are not compensated or titled appropriately and are looking for new employment. While the culture aims to be youthful and full of spirit, it's also fading into the sunset as we grow and when you are old enough to have a family, little to no respect is given to your personal time... NI expects long hours, global assignments, and compliance without giving anything in return to its tenured.
2.4I would bring in more experienced external hires to disrupt the group think and I would pay employees more competitively. I would also let MBA holders be the business owners not engineers.
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National Instruments provides measurement and control systems for engineers and scientists. In business since 1976, they are headquartered in Austin, Texas, and have offices around the world providing products and consulting to local industry. Their LabVIEW product is used by companies of all sizes, including CERN in Geneva, Switzerland which uses it to control the Large Hadron Collider, one of the world's largest scientific experiment facilities.
Products from National Instruments allow researchers to design and prototype systems using existing building blocks of hardware and software. National Instruments products play a major role in supporting research projects at universities.
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National Instruments has an emphasis on promoting from within, and recruits new college graduates, interns, and co-op workers. They focus on employee development to ensure that their "most important asset" is where they invest. National Instruments offers a relaxed environment where workers can champion ideas and innovation. They employ more than 5,100 around the globe, with solid management and a diverse customer base.
Employees are encouraged to volunteer in K-12 STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) programs. Their benefits package and development programs are based on a desire for employees to stay with National Instruments long term, growing and challenging themselves.