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National Instruments

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Please the shareholders at any cost (especially employees jobs) - Principal Software Engineer National Instruments Employee Review

2.0
Feb 20, 2024
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Pros

Projects (when we have one) can be great. Other engineers/technicians are really great people, wherever they're located. Thanks a lot and shout out to them. Depending on the location, the salary may be good (ours were).

Cons

NI is a company that has no strategy other than please the shareholders, at any cost. Since Starkloff became CEO, the only goal was to sell the company. That absolutely meant ni has just been through few waves of laying off many employees, even if the company yoy perf was good. Direction is careless, see employees as just numbers and is happy to do some math with them (quoted from board member in all hands meeting). No consideration whatsoever for the lives of more than a thousand people who were fired the last 3 years. I don't recommend at all.

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5.0
Apr 13, 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
Mar 30, 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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