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      Software Engineer Interview

      Dec 19, 2013
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tenable

      Interview

      Applied on their website, spoke with internal recruiter on phone and completed take-home technical questions. Then another phone interview with the manager covering my resume and experience. A few behavioral questions related directly to the position duties. After a couple days the manager called back with an offer.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Technical questions were pulled straight from the position duties and slightly simplified.
      Answer question
      6

      Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Tenable

      Software Engineer Interview

      Nov 23, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied in-person. I interviewed at Tenable

      Interview

      Typical Interview with 2 questions, one of them being quite difficult and unique Then was given a home task, which I was given a weekend to do, and was then reviewed on,

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Design a storage system architecture
      1 Answer
      2

      Software Engineer Interview

      May 13, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Tenable

      Interview

      Had their recruiter reached out to me almost immediately after i applied in setting up an initial call, I responded back but however, took the recruiter about a week to eventually get back to me, stating he was away unexpectedly. Finally I had the screen call with the recruiter and he did not tell much about anything related to the company or the position, I basically had to pry him out of the standard information normally given by the recruiter in these interviews. Instead of telling me about the position, basically he wanted me to look the job posting again and let him know if i have any questions and that was basically the bulk of the interview. He also did not tell me anything of what the next step is. Not surprisingly, never heard back from him again. It seems quite lazy of the recruiter, and it didn't seem like he even gave an effort in seriously conducting the call. I'm not really sure why they even decide to do the call in the first place but i'm guessing maybe there was a certain quota of calls to reach by him.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Do you have any questions about the job listing?
      Answer question

      Software Developer Interview

      Apr 6, 2022
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Austin, TX
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tenable (Austin, TX) in Oct 2021

      Interview

      The interview process was fine but they just stop responding to me. I did an interview and it went well. I met the team and that went well. There was supposed to be follow up but I never received any. They didn't even say we're no longer interested.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What is your background? What made you interested in tenable? Experience in pipelines and naval software?
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      Tenable interviews FAQs

      • Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Tenable with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 52.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 16 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Tenable overall takes an average of 21 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Tenable as a Software Engineer according to 16 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  35%

        Skills test:  15%

        One on one interview:  13%

        Personality test:  8%

        Group panel interview:  8%

        Background check:  8%

        IQ intelligence test:  5%

        Presentation:  5%

        Other:  3%

        Drug test:  3%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Software Engineer(37) ;
        2. Technical Support Engineer(34) ;
        3. Senior Software Engineer(30) ;
        4. Customer Success Manager(22) ;
        5. Territory Manager(19) ;
        6. Sales(13) ;
        7. Sales Development Representative (SDR)(10) ;
        8. Customer Success Manager (CSM)(8) ;
        9. Sales Engineer(8) ;
        10. Staff Software Engineer(7) ;
        11. Account Manager(6) ;
        12. Intern(6) ;
        13. Account Executive(5) ;
        14. Director(5) ;
        15. Engineer(5) .


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