Wouldn’t recommend working at Tempus - Lab Support Tempus AI Employee Review

2.0
Jun 25, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-The mission of the company is noble -There is a barista on site -there are smart, dedicated, capable employees

Cons

-Tempus does not care about you as a person at all. They only care about productivity. If you say there is too much work, the response is “everyone has too much work” -Tempus does not care about diversity and inclusion. This has been made abundantly clear in recent weeks -There is no focus on career development. You won’t receive recognition for good work and there’s no clear way to get a promotion, but Tempus is quick to provide negative feedback or fire staff for poor work rather than providing help. The way to be most successful is to either have personal connections with upper leadership, be hired in at a high level, or be one of the original tempus leadership members. Your outside experience and work done on the job don’t seem to mean much if you’re hired in at a lower level position -little to no formal training, but people are quick to blame staff rather than realizing there may be an inherent training problem -there is little to no management training so if you have a bad manager, it won’t get better. Voicing concerns about your manager to upper leadership won’t do anything since people development is very low on the priority list. -no 401k match or bonuses (at least for non management positions). Tempus would rather spend money on things that make the company look “cool” over giving employees better benefits or salaries -Leadership doesn’t listen to subject experts -Speed is always prioritized over quality. Tempus cares more about how they are perceived externally than the actual quality of work produced. -Priorities shift extremely quickly, but you will be expected to finish whatever else you were working on even if a new, time-consuming and higher priority assignment has been given to you

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Mar 12, 2026
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Pros

As mentioned work is great since it is cancer research and my coworkers are amazing. Immediate leadership managers and Sr. managers are good as well but somewhat unorganised. Work life balance is good also and health insurance as long as you get BCBS PPO with copay otherwise you're screwed paying off deductible.

Cons

Pay is below industry average, and there is essentially no room to negotiate a better raise. Employees are actively discouraged from discussing compensation, and whatever leadership decides is final, there are no exceptions. If you try to escalate concerns or request a conversation with senior leadership, such as a senior director or VP, you’ll quickly find yourself getting the runaround. Leadership prefers to hide behind layers of management rather than engage directly. There is also no clear or transparent path for career advancement. Opportunities technically exist, but they are extremely limited. You can do everything right, receive a top rating of 5 on your annual performance review, and still not be promoted to manager or see any meaningful improvement in compensation. To make matters worse, the billionaire CEO and founder has said things like, “Don’t worry about pay because we’re curing cancer.” Statements like that feel incredibly out of touch when employees are earning $50k–$60k a year and receiving annual raises of only about $2,000. On top of that, equity is almost impossible to obtain. You have to fight for even the possibility of it, because stock or equity compensation is reserved almost exclusively for the C-suite and directors, with virtually nothing available for employees below that level.

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