Great place to work - Staff Software Engineer Tanium Employee Review

5.0
10 Apr 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Smart colleagues I can learn from - A team-oriented rather than ego-driven culture - Opportunities to mentor others: interns, new hires, junior employees, college programs - Great compensation - Modern tech stack - Empowerment to recognize and improve on pain points - Free to contribute to projects outside of my own team if I'm interested - QA and devops orgs that are making the developer experience better and better every day - Freedom to invest some time in necessary but non-"flashy" tasks like refactoring code to make it more maintainable - Mutual trust and respect with my manager - Opportunities for public shout-outs (and bonuses) when people do great work - Able to connect with colleagues with similar interests or life experiences/demographics - Interesting and important industry - Company values that I can buy into ("we do the right thing", "we win as a team", "we are unstoppable") - I trust company leadership to make good big-picture decisions

Cons

- Need more product owners or project managers to drive the spec'ing of the things we're building, at the level of detail needed for engineering to do great work - Wish we had more women engineers

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5.0
18 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great comp, benefits, work life balance most of the time. Trustworthy leadership and strong direction

Cons

Can be hectic at times with tight deadlines and long hours but is not the norm

3.0
15 June 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I've worked for Tanium over 5 years and have seen a lot of change. The pace is fast and the teams are small so if you want autonomy and ownership this is a great place to work.

Cons

They're constantly reorging, it would be nice if the exec team could make up their mind on how they want the org structured and stick to it. They tend to do whatever other "hot" companies at the time are doing. The founder still plays a massive role and the c-suite just seem like his puppets. No one wants to be in office and ppl constantly complain but no one in leadership listens. It used to feel like they cared about what the employees say, but now everyone seems beaten down and just does the work so they're not laid off. Pay is also low compared to competitors. You have a decent annual salary but no bonus and no IPO in sight. You'll get RSUs but the price keeps going down with a promise to go back up. I've only seen it go down in my experience so just be mindful that whatever your base salary is (unless you're in sales) is going to be your total earnings.

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