It's just a job. - Senior Hardware Technician National Instruments Employee Review

Young engineers without discipline and poor managers routinely ignore internal processes designed to help with project development. This results in late projects and bad reviews for the team when it comes time to assign the blame. Twice yearly reviews are sometimes only done once a year. If your manager skips one, that info doesn't make it to the salary review meeting. Your manager may have other meetings and chose those over attending the salary meeting. Advancement and compensation discussions WILL NOT reflect the opportunities for development that NI advertises during interviews. Remember to suck up. You need good technical reviews but you'll also need the blessing of some hard to work with senior engineers to get advanced. As you get closer to advancement, your evals will decline. You will suddenly not get credit for projects, even if you have a signed apprecitation cetificate for the same work. Fault will be found. If you are career oriented, I do not recommend staying long at NI.