Tenable Software Engineer reviews

HR is downright pushy about asking people to recruit friends, repeatedly asking us to act as signal boosters for their recruitment drives and even going as far as to specify lines we should use. And they've made numerous requests that we review Tenable on public sites. It's honestly a little annoying and that practice is kind of shady. Some of the longterm staff at Tenable can be entrenched in their ways, which can be a serious detriment depending on how controlling they are. Some of the products and teams are very cool, but still others have serious quality issues. It can make it difficult to recommend Tenable to associates.

I wasn't challenged, at all. Most of the job was maintaining existing code and there weren't any hard problems, just "fix this" and "incrementally improve that" or "copypaste this and slightly modify it to suit this new thing". It was tedious, unrewarding busy-work that doesn't make me excited to get up in the morning. There were no real challenges in sight, just keeping up with the endless tide of small changes and fixes. I couldn't see myself doing that forever; it was a shameful waste of my abilities. There were no real risks, either. Nothing I did had any risk to it; either the code didn't work and harmlessly failed or it did what it needed to do and the world marched quietly, uneventfully, on. Sure, I was helping make the internet incrementally more secure, but not in any real, measurable, lasting sense. It was like I was adding bricks on top of an already-built dam. I was improving the situation, but drastically less than the people who came before and built the framework I improved every day. I identified with the mission (just not in the way the marketing department phrased it), but without a sense of being challenged I felt like I wasn't really improving myself, like I was standing still in the most rapidly moving field on the planet. Technology-wise it's a very corporate environment, very unfriendly to open source. This was probably the basis for everything else that put me off the company. Note that this was a con from *my* point of view, and that others may prefer it. I know my coworkers certainly did.