Benefits are great, moral- not so much - Senior Software Engineer Tanium Employee Review

3.0
Sep 22, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The people are awesome. It's impressive how people come together and believe in the one team, one fight mantra. The benefits are amazing. This could have easily been one of the best jobs I've ever had.

Cons

The CEO flip-flops constantly on what he considers important to focus. For example, Tanium was poised to take over the security space, they had even hired a bunch of subject matter experts, but then it was decided that the direction was going to go in a totally different direction. There is also a fear of getting on the CEO's bad side for fear of retaliation. Some of the higher ups try to make you feel bad for expenses incurred during mandatory company get-togethers. I've never been at a place that treats you like a child with respect to expenses. There are of course limits, and rightfully so, but to make you feel bad because you almost got to that limit or you didn't car share because there wasn't going to be someone at the airport for another 2 hours after your flight arrived is ludicrous. For a company that's doing well, it seems strange to try to make you feel grateful for them allowing you to expense something. The hiring process is painful. It takes forever to hire people and the really good ones often get tired of the process and leave the pipeline before they can complete it.

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5.0
May 18, 2026
Recommend
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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
Jun 15, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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