NI India - "Field Sales" is a black hole for career of MBA students!! - Avis employé Employé (anonyme) National Instruments

I worked as a Field Sales Engineer for this company in India.The biggest problem is that the Indian subsidiary is a LaLa company with all the wrong ways to attract,hire,promote,favour and fire employees.The top management and sales team leadership work out ways to dupe the talent from campus and then put them in situations which are unacceptable to any of the MBA employees.The engineers working here do escape by opting for higher education within 5 yrs of work due to the unreasonable working conditions and bleak growth opportunities.The stagnant top management including the sales leadership are to blame for the attrition and even after 20 years this company has failed to grow in India because of their Lala style of functioning(like a family business).This is a warning to the top MBA students who are being told lies about the 7 digit salary and training period lasting 6 months : Do not trust the management at their face value,it will dupe you and spoil your career.After you join post MBA ,they make you to work as if a part of a call centre support from 9 am-6 pm and call this a training (are you kidding me) making you take 25~40 calls daily for totally technical queries unrelated to sales and ask you to get mandatory technical certification till they decide to put you on the field for sales which is again biased on personal judgements. It may take an year and a half or more based on their defective personal judgements (Be aware they falsely say it is 6 months in contract) .You are not paid the promised salary on campus till this entire period and have to study on weekends like all the B.Tech. graduates(literally no life on weekdays or weekends). Till that time you work on less than half of the salary promised (the variable part is nil and more than 50%)and get less than the least salary of any of your MBA peers always in fear of whether you will be working in the sales role or not. From last 3 years it has not paid the bonus to its employees with offices shutting down due to losses.The worst unethical part is INTERNAL INTERVIEWS for the MBA people hired for field sales in competition with the application engineers to hire them with biasness for hiring application engineers rather MBAs on the field for sales(Can you work with hardware and software better than b.tech. Grads with 2 years of work ex with NI-no then wait till eternity or unless someone escapes this company and that position is open with no competition ).How can MBAs who have been hired for sales be asked questions like "why field sales" after working in this call centre setup for clients being called as a training for sales and making them work on salary less than engineers(MBAs are paid half of the salary until they clear the multiple rounds of harassment filled internal interviews which has no relation to sales on field). They make MBA students compete with engineers for the sales positions which they should be rightfully put in after 6 months with proper training(is it too much to ask-yes for a LaLa company it is too much :p ) as they were hired from campus for this position unlike the engineers who were hired for technical positions.The indian subsidiary is a black hole for starting your career post MBA so take this risk for getting half the promised salary for unreasonable time period(1-2 years) to work in a call centre and regret later as to why did you join this company without reading this real review.Oh,and please do not remember to read this review again when you face one of those INTERNAL INTERVIEWS with engineers in competition for sales job which you were promised on campus :p Good Luck to those who joined-you wish you would have paid heed to this inside review!!Find a job within 6 months or go for a start-up because after this stint you would not find enough people being able to switch in decent companies except the one who had the balls to write this review!!