Tanium Senior Software Developer reviews

One of Tanium's cultural values is "win as a team", yet when you seek the help from colleagues, it's seen as a weakness. My manager told me "You should already know that". Be prepared to get criticized when your manager doesn't perceive your performance as good enough. This is expected - yet when I asked how to improve my performance, the first answer I got was "software engineering is an art - it's hard to quantify. I can't just tell you how to improve." When I tried to defend my performance and point out how I thought my performance was good, I was treated with hostility, my manager told me " maybe you just don't want to work here." I assured my manager that I would do *anything* I had to to remain working at Tanium. When I was finally put on a performance improvement plan, I thought "great, now I can do what I need to do to satisfy my manager". I was given a month. I wasn't told my job was in jeopardy. In addition to my usual duties, this month included preparing for and giving a presentation at on off-site conference, and working with software engineers on other projects to integrate with the work I was doing. I did what was asked. My efforts were met with hostility. When I pointed out that I had more than double the PR's and commits than the other members of the team over a similar time period, that still wasn't good enough. Apparently it's insubordination to defend yourself. I was still fired. I was set up to fail. The improvement plan was simply an hr checkbox needed to justify firing me.

Tanium is a well-kept secret outside of the Enterprise IT community, so you'll be explaining what you do to a lot of your friends and family. They do an excellent job of training new employees though, so it won't be hard! Also, due to the excellent internal strategy of not using title changes for promotions, it's a little bit of an adjustment to learn how career growth works here.