Poor Leadership, Great Product - Director, Sales Tanium Employee Review

1.0
4 Mar 2024
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Pros

Great product - could be so much more successful

Cons

Terrible CRM management - we had a ton of tools and my leadership team still needed to manage their deals in Excel/Google Sheets because Operations moved like molassas. Leadership on all levels, not just high-up is based on neopotism, not skillset or ability to produce. This is a big part of why they are not as successful as they could be with a great product. The IC's at the company probably have it best, but they still screwed them over and didn't take them into account when making decisoins. Messed up a major sales commission payout for months, when it was flagged to finance and HR they did nothing about it for months. They they expected ICs to pay it back immediately months later when they did find it, which of course, they couldn't, but the company didn't have any compassion or take any responsibility,

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5.0
18 May 2026
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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 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
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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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