Unicorn Tech Company With Strong Products and Determined Focus on R&D in Cybersecurity + "Cyberexposure"
Unicorn Tech Company With Strong Products and Determined Focus on R&D in Cybersecurity + "Cyberexposure"
- Mature products (Nessus, SecurityCenter/Tenable.sc, LCE)
- High achieving and knowledgeable engineers
- Experienced lower management
- Supportive lower management
- Benefits exceed Big N companies:
- Slightly above-average salary
- Top 1% health insurance
- Above-average vision and dental insurance
- Insane amount of PTO
- Work from home flexibility
- Generous stock plans
- Generous grants
- Partial tuition reimbursement
- Some discounts on major retailers
- Opportunity for growth (software engineers)
- Excellent hardware for developers
- Innovation Day (1 day a sprint to contribute to your team's product with what you think could improve the customer's experience)
- Excellent company hackathon-vacation (INIT)
- Engineers get 1 paid conference to attend anywhere in the world (management approval)
- Abundance of parking spots
- Abundance of snacks, coffee, lattes, etc.
- Abundance of catered food budget
- Excellent area with high-quality restaurants and nearby food options for lunch
- New building soon in 2020
- Extremely complex software, not for the faint of heart.
- Lack of spaces for developers to brainstorm and peer-code.
- Not enough fun things to do when taking coding breaks.
- Lack of whiteboards and whiteboard walls for engineers.
- High expectations for features, with some feature bloating.
- Frequent upper management changes.
- No Wikipedia page for our multi-billion dollar company (seriously?).
- Video game collection is lacking.
- Focus more on your engineers and their concerns with the codebase.
- Feature bloating contributes to less time to fix legacy code, which turns into major and critical CS tickets in the future.
- Need to be more laid-back and fun to attract younger, more talented developers, especially if you want them to stay.
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Tenable Interview Experiences
Software Engineer
HR phone interview request -> Receive email to make schedule -> Phone interview -> Decision whether tech interview or not It takes about 2 weeks to get an email after I applied. One week later after the HR interview, I got an email back.
Software Engineer
Decent process. It started with a phone interview with Recruiter (Bethany), followed by technical assessments, phone interviews, and a group interview. Every step of the way was well communicated. No surprises.
Software Engineer
The recruiter was nice, seemed knowledgeable, and was thorough. However, they never contacted me back to discuss their interest. When I reached out several weeks later, they stated they had simply lost track of my application and asked if I was still
Software Engineer
Columbia, Maryland, United StatesFebruary 1, 2016HR phone interview request -> Receive email to make schedule -> Phone interview -> Decision whether tech interview or not It takes about 2 weeks to get an email after I applied. One week later after the HR interview, I got an email back.
Software Engineer
Columbia, Maryland, United StatesFebruary 1, 2016Decent process. It started with a phone interview with Recruiter (Bethany), followed by technical assessments, phone interviews, and a group interview. Every step of the way was well communicated. No surprises.
Software Engineer
Columbia, Maryland, United StatesAugust 1, 2015The recruiter was nice, seemed knowledgeable, and was thorough. However, they never contacted me back to discuss their interest. When I reached out several weeks later, they stated they had simply lost track of my application and asked if I was still
