Insane amount of upfront work to prepare a ROBUST deck with ROI calculations and many, many rounds. You will only get passed to the next round if it’s a UNANIMOUS decision by the panel. So if 2/3 people like your presentation, you’re not advancing. Hello, personal bias. Great to met you!
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Tanium nel mese di apr 2019
Colloquio
Although I do understand Tanium’s quest to hire the best, after the initial screen, I interviewed with a potential peer 1x1. In my opinion based on his inexperienced interview questions, he had to come to a subjective opinion versus factual. A potential peer should be part of a panel interview and should not have the authority to eliminate that early in the process. Funny thing is, I interviewed in April. The same position is still open now in August. Tanium what are you really looking for in a candidate?
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Tanium (Chicago, IL) nel mese di mag 2020
Colloquio
A phone screen with a recruiter
30 min interview with CS peer
-Case study - intensive. Plan on 30 hours plus for -preparation including completing a platform demo. Presentations is challenging and panel does not stick to the case study scenario.
-Interviews with hiring mgr and leadership if you pass the case study
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Domanda 1
The phone screen and initial interview consist of standard interview questions
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 5 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Tanium (Emeryville, CA) nel mese di mag 2019
Colloquio
Phone interview with recruiter
Video interview with Customer Success Director
Video mock demo and exec business review case presentation
Phone interview with recruiter was professional but the Tanium representative sounded very inexperienced. The recruiter couldn’t really speak in detail to Tanium’s strengths, but suggested I read Glassdoor. Which is sometimes a sign the company has been engaging in an internally encouraged social media campaign to reverse prior bad publicity.
Second interview was a video discussion with somebody in the role today. Questions were a combo of client management and domain knowledge. Not particularly difficult. I asked questions about Tanium, but got very little info in return.
Notified by recruiter of progress to case interview. I was a bit suspicious that they might be using the case step to crowdsource ideas for their internal methods. It was too fast and with little effort on Tanium side to get to this stage. But I pushed forward nonetheless.
Case is a 10 minute demo and 40 minute presentation to a 3-person panel via video. Very big time sink to prepare. 20 to 40 hours depending on if you already know their product. I felt good about my effort but received no feedback from the panel. No additional info about the company from them either - why I should be excited about Tanium, culture, day-to-day, nothing at all, period. But of course, they had plenty of questions for me.
Recruiter eventually let me know my case performance was good, but they were passing on my candidacy for “other reasons”.
Why weren’t the “other reasons” screened for before I was asked to complete the case?
Are they crowdsourcing best practices at the expense of candidates’ time?
Glassdoor is a mix of 1-star and 5-star reviews. Always a bad sign.
Very unprofessional in overall approach in my opinion.
Tanium Interviewers and recruiters all seem inexperienced and green.
If they treat candidates this way, same probably goes for employees and customers.