Vantaggi
NI is a great transition from college into corporate working life. They invest in their employees with training and coaching. It is a comfortable place to work with many avenues for growth. Because of my time at NI, I was positioned well for my next job at a different company. There are many talented people there and I was glad to come across them.
Svantaggi
Salary and benefits have improved but are not competitive. The story NI used to tell new grads was how the upper management took giant pay cuts to keep folks employed through the 2008 recession because the people came first in the company. There was a 100-year plan and it seemed like a great place to spend a good part of your career. Current upper management could not be less in touch with what is happening in the company, from their monthly-changing strategy to the people they have carelessly laid off in the last 2-3 years. Upper management seems to be mostly driven by the investors, which has led to them letting go of top talent across all functions, people I looked up to, sometimes in unprofessional methods. Leadership is inconsistent with what they say and do, and it’s difficult to trust the direction of the company. Growth has been accomplished through price increases in the past 3 years because the strategy trails the pace of the market. I am glad for my time there but fortunate to have moved on before things continue to spiral.