Started with two rounds of phone interviews with potential managers. Was then asked to fly to Emeryville for an on-site interview. I live in Seattle, so this was relatively easy, not sure if they would ask folks to fly in if they were coming from father away. On-site I was asked to give a 30 minute discussion on a technology that has come out in the past three years that wasn't something I was currently working on at my current employer. That was followed by a panel discussion with a mixed set of product managers, engineering managers, Technical Account Managers and Product Marketing Managers. Discussion was broad ranging on how you would bring the technology to market, who you would target, how it's supported, what you thought expansion opportunities were. After that there were a series of one on one interviews with various staff members.

I was contacted by a recruiter through LinkedIn for a Director level PM role. At Tanium the PM groups are not all organized the same, in this case I was not going to be managing a team (despite the title), but would have potential influence over other more junior PMs. I passed a phone screening with the Recruiter, basic information only. I was then passed to a Hiring Manager who had some high level PM questions and some insight on Tanium's position as an Endpoint Vendor. They definitely saw themselves positioned MUCH stronger then the remainder of the market and didn't seem to believe they had a lot of "improvement" to make in the Product. This was a RED FLAG immediately for me. After the initial Hiring Manager conversation I was put in front of (2) additional PM Directors for 1-1 interviews. Both of these interviews were very unstructured and tended to focus on highly-technical Endpoint driven product improvements. One interviewer asked for my opinions on a Product and ways to improve; after brainstorming and providing some options he actually took time to disagree with me and pick-apart my answer because "he knew the product very well." Generally speaking the process was not well organized and the interviewers were quite seat-of-their-pants in Q/A. I then heard nothing back from Recruitment, despite false promises that they would communicate. STEAR CLEAR OF THIS PM TEAM. They are very immature or going through a lot of challenging changes at a minimum.