Tenable Software Engineer reviews

4.2

80% would recommend to a friend

(39 total reviews)

Steve Vintz and Mark Thurmond

77% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

Software Engineer employees have rated Tenable with 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 39 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Tenable is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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39 reviews
5.0
Dec 19, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

High growth and starting to get away from the "start up" mentality by hiring top level management and staff. Close-knit groups, so the ability to balance having fun and keeping things loose yet delivering at a high level makes for interesting workweeks. If you are searching for a challenge and are more than willing to and not just collect a pay check, then this company is the right fit for you.

Cons

Need to tighten up internal comm's a little more. It's gotten better and with the new internal communication platforms so 2018 will be much better.

1.0
Oct 3, 2017
Recommend
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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.

5.0
Jul 6, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great brand, fast software release cycles, great engineering teams, international presence, amazing product, hard-working colleagues, excellent benefits and training. Tenable offers challenging roles where you can make a difference if you're prepared to work hard and understand the culture of high growth. HR team is fantastic, forward thinking and continue to add benefits, training and advice to make this a great company to work for.

Cons

If you are used to a big company environment, this is not for you. Forget about politics and worrying about climbing the ladder and big titles. Contribution is what matters and is rewarded.

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