Tanium reviews

4.1

73% would recommend to a friend

(866 total reviews)
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Dan Streetman

86% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Tanium has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 866 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Tanium employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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866 reviews
2.0
Apr 28, 2018
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Pros

Some of the best talent I have worked with. Differentiated product. Great salary and OTE. Great mission with a lot of intent around being a world class company that's not just trying to make revenue. Made the move from bookings to ARR and that improved financial consistency and began creating a middle class in sales. Unique financial stability for a company at its stage in all elements: Growth, cash flow, and total revenue.

Cons

The founders run the show and don't know what to look for in a senior leadership staff. The founders are brilliant but don't take feedback well. This last year the leadership team started calling themselves the E-staff and estranged the work force. They started making a lot of top down decisions without getting buy-in from their respective teams. The CRO was a poor hire and doesn't seem to like his own sales team... Moreover, he doesn't seem to realize people need to like him if he wants to retain and motivate his staff. The CRO tries to lead using Salesforce and a monthly webinar and thinks he's smarter than everyone. Despite the CRO's charisma on stage he lacks interpersonal self awareness. Despite high OTE's in sales there is inconsistent achievement with a low percentage of sellers meeting/exceeding quota i.e. 30-40% vs. industry average (which is a more healthy 50-70%). The top 10% are making a lot of money but that list tends to change year to year. The company doesn't tend to look at people's talent and ask where they could be most effective, taking a very binary perspective on promotions. Not putting genuine effort into employee engagement and maximizing their #1 asset, their people. Most of the E-staff are cheerleaders and won't stand up to the founders when things could be better. In the time frame from Q4 2017 - Q1 2018 a lot of the best sales, PM and technical staff left because the E-staff appear to be satisfied living in their bubble and aren't genuinely interested in assuring employees feel good about working at the company. The TAM team leadership needs to learn inter-department collaboration. The attitude they foster is unprofessional and adds to cultural divides between TAM's and Sales, two groups that should be lock step.

1.0
Oct 3, 2020
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Pros

The fundamental technology is sound and can be used as a platform for solving a broad range of infrastructure maintenance and cybersecurity at scale.

Cons

The reality of working at Tanium is even worse than Forbes lets on: I worked at Tanium for a year. I was fired without warning or cause just a few weeks before my first vesting. At termination I was told that Tanium “wanted to help me” by paying my minimum bonus and granting the pending vesting shares. (It also happens that this type of ‘help’ makes it more difficult to mount a successful wrongful termination case.) Seven months after their 'help,' Tanium exercised a right to repurchase those same RSUs — stripping me of the equity I built into the company. ^ All legal. Not what I would call "Do the right thing." (All the Tanium 'values.') I provided some of the best work of my career to the worst company I was ever unfortunate enough to work for. Don't be a like fool. Save yourself. Avoid this company at all costs.

2.0
Apr 11, 2021

No longer a company I recognize

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Pros

Colleagues are oftentimes great people to work with Decent benefits/compensation Work remotely from anywhere Certain managers are exceptional

Cons

Politics - For a company of approximately 1,700 employees, the politics here are now exceptionally vicious. This wasn't always the case, but it's become increasingly toxic since David Hindawi receded from the limelight with his son at the helm. Tanium has more yes-men now more than ever and increasingly so. Don't even bother reporting anything to HR. They are there to protect the executive team and no amount of documentation will change the outcome. Culture - Tanium used to believe in and act inline with their cultural pillars (win as a team, do the right thing, we are unstoppable). It is now: 1. The only people who matter are in leadership, everyone else is disposable 2. Integrity is optional 3. Eliminate anyone who stands in your way For a company that was under fire for poor cultural practices in 2017, it has become apparent they did not learn from their mistakes. Tanium regressed back into old habits which was made painstakingly obvious with the claw backs recently in October 2020. It is clear that Orion Hindawi will never be his father. Though it is not as compelling as my first two points, Tanium is stingy - We didn't have any holiday fun or activities during the great pandemic of 2020. Friends at other equivalent companies held events in lieu of a holiday party. Employees at other companies also got larger bonuses since they didn't have catered lunches anymore or a monthly stipend. This was not the case at Tanium. If you really want to know more about Tanium's history of bad behavior, google it.

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