Talked with recruiter and got a great first impression. Next talked with an engineering manager and again thought everything sounded great. Feeling very excited about the opportunity.
Looked into the company a bit more and read the horror stories about the CEO. Read a lot on Blind about bad it is to work here. I thought I’d still give it a chance.
Moved on to technical interview, the coding questions were pretty easy. First interviewer was good but didn’t have much good to say about the company. Not very enthusiastic.
Second interviewer was awful. Very cynical and into himself. Didn’t turn on webcam and sounded distracted. Made company sound like not a good place to work. It was very hard to take him seriously and have a good conversation. Ended the interview early after solving coding question in 5 minutes then asking him questions for half an hour and hearing nothing positive.
Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. El proceso duró 2 días. Acudí a una entrevista en Tanium (Emeryville, CA) en ago 2025
Entrevista
I received a quick response based on my resume for an interview. The technical pre-screen was five very simple questions which I’m sure I answered correctly. The day after I received some canned response that I answered some of the questions incorrectly and they would not proceed. I believe it was due to my initial responses to commuting to the 2nd most crime ridden city in California 3x a week. Lucky for Mrs Midwest she’s grandfathered in to remote work. I would not have accepted if offered regardless, salary and benefits are well below market.
Envié una solicitud electrónica. El proceso duró 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Tanium en jul 2025
Entrevista
Call with recruiter (7/8), which went well, got an email with next steps, I replied. Silence. I replied again on 7/14. Silence. Come 7/26 I get an email saying the position had been filled. So nice to be ghosted after such a positive phone call.
Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. El proceso duró 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Tanium en ago 2024
Entrevista
The interview and offer process was quick. There were three pretty informal behavioral interviews, a system design interview, and a basic technical question that could be extended.
Everyone was quite friendly and willing to answer questions. The interviews with director and VP showed they were pretty technical which was fantastic!
The recruiters seemed very busy because I was interacting with three people. They couldn't match another offer I had and seemed to have little wiggle room with comp/title/perks like WFH.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Design a system similar to Tanium's endpoint monitoring system.
