Tenable

Item: Tenable
Rating: 3.6
Author: Anonymous

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Profile Highlights

High Quota Attainment

Tenable quota attainment is better than the industry average

Competitive Salaries

OTE at Tenable for Enterprise Account Executives and Sales Development Representatives is highly competitive compared to industry peers. View salaries

High Score for Professional Development and Training

Tenable is in the 89th percentile for Professional Development and Training

Performance Category Ratings

See how employees rated Tenable in RepVue’s key performance categories.

Category Score

Industry Percentile

Industry Rank

Culture and Leadership

3.2

56th%of Software orgs

# 1,200of 2,740 Software orgs

Base Compensation

3.6

50th%of Software orgs

# 1,390of 2,740 Software orgs

Incentive Compensation Structure

3.7

73rd%of Software orgs

# 727of 2,740 Software orgs

Product - Market Fit

4.1

73rd%of Software orgs

# 713of 2,740 Software orgs

Professional Development and Training

3.7

89th%of Software orgs

# 285of 2,740 Software orgs

Inbound Lead / Opportunity Flow

3.0

65th%of Software orgs

# 939of 2,740 Software orgs

Diversity and Inclusion

3.7

50th%of Software orgs

# 1,389of 2,740 Software orgs

About Tenable

Baltimore

Tenable® is the Cyber Exposure company. Approximately 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. As the creator of Nessus®, Tenable...More

Percent that Attain Quota?

Goodof team members typically hit their quota

Software Industry Average

42%

Global Average

44%

Salaries

Job Role

Median Base Pay

Median OTE

Top Performer

Customer Success ManagerSalary data from 6 ratings

Base Pay$90k

OTE$150k

Top Performers$258.3k

Sales EngineerSalary data from 4 ratings

Base Pay$125k

OTE$180k

Top Performers$275k

Sales Development RepresentativeSalary data from 5 ratings

Reviews

Former Employee

2.9

Jul 1, 2025

Bad company outlook. Not strong enough to survive in a highly competitive market. Tenables stock indicates the lack of growth in the last 5 years. Pity, it used to be an amazing company when they got IPO

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Current Employee

3.0

Jun 23, 2025

Used to be a great company, has now transitioned into being very corporate and inflexible. Moving into “Exposure Management” and cloud security has been unsuccessful. Outlook is very negative for stock performance. we are getting pinched by best of breed EDR’s and cloud security players leaving us in a bad position for growth. Very unlikely that news reps will be...Read More

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Employee Ratings

Total Employee Ratings

Total Ratings

129

Ratings Verified by RepVue

Verified Ratings

89%

Job Categories

Account Executive

66%

Customer Success

15%

SDR / BDR

Leadership Roles

Channel Sales / Partnerships

Sales Engineer / Solution Consultant

Other

Employee Status

Ratings submitted by current employees

70%

Ratings submitted by former employees

30%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Tenable has an overall employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 and a RepVue score of 82.80. They are ranked #712 out of all Software organizations.

Currently it is reported that 44.8% of the reps at Tenable are hitting quota.

Tenable has a rating of 3.2 out of 5 for culture and leadership. They are ranked #2489 in this category out of 5912 companies.