Short sighted decisions and HR issues - Software Engineer Tenable Employee Review

1.0
Oct 3, 2017
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Pros

My team was great to work with.

Cons

The company has changed greatly in the last year. I went from loving the company to really disliking working here. Background I was fresh out of school when joining Tenable and was in a 100% remote position. HR : I don’t know a single person that had something good to say about HR. My biggest grip is that there is a lack of transparency. Want to change jobs internally? HR will fight it. You got that internal job change? great! but HR will fight and win so you don't get a pay increase even if the recruiter and manager said there was going to be a pay bump. Oh now you don't want the job now? too bad you don't get an offer for internally job changes, you just get moved. Worked hard to help reach that important deadline? HR doesn't care about that they only see how many years of experience you have. Taking on more responsibility in hopes for a promotion title change? LOL remember work experience is the only thing they care about. Your manager is trying to keep hold of people on your team? HR does not care just hire someone new because it doesn't matter that your team already understaffed. Being “fresh” out of school: I don’t recommend getting a job at Tenable if you are young with very little full time work (after college) in your resume. There was not a career path when I was there. No matter your: output, if your manager likes you, how much responsibility you have you will be held back just because of the years of experience due to some unspoken HR bull crap. I recommend only joining if you have at least 4 years full time work after college. Short sighted decisions: There are some questionable choices by higher management which seem like they did not think things though completely. It seems like if some of their experiments don’t reach their high (sometimes nearly impossible) results things will be axed even if things were headed in the right direction. Pay : This really depends on the person and the manager they have. Some of my friends pay is a pro to them but they joined Tenable a couple of years before me. But it seems like in the last year they have been a way more stringent about off schedule raises and there normal yearly raise was low. Pay really becomes a problem when people with different titles are basically doing the same work. (Sucks if you are young) Yeah all the other negative reviews are true.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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