Don't Do it. - Junior Clinical Data Abstractor Tempus AI Employee Review

2.0
Jan 14, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

I loved the office setting and my coworkers were friendly. They offer free coffee and snacks. I took the job because I loved the mission.

Cons

I felt like I was always taking work home. I was working way more than 40 hrs a week, closer to 55-60. I did well during the training program, but what I had been taught during training was completely different from what my manager expected. I felt like the QA standards for every case were not consistent across the team. For example, when I was struggling, my manager had me work on a case with someone else from the QA team. Then when she did the QA for my work, she took off a bunch of points. When I explained that the individual from the QA team told me to complete the case the way I had, she gave me some BS and marked it wrong anyway. Overall, I don't recommend this position for someone looking to move up. This might be decent if you only plan on sticking around for a year or two. I only took this job because I was looking for something to do for my gap year before medical school. Though working here did make it very hard to focus on that. I feel like the management doesn't really care about your personal goals. They only care about how many cases you can finish, and will fire you if you don't do it to their standards. Standards which are still unclear to me to this day. Literally, its 3 strikes and you're fired. It feels like you're fighting to keep the job every day, and its the fear that drives you to do the work, not the fact that you can learn and grow from the work you do. I ended up leaving 6 months after I started to focus on medical school full time. It was the best decision ever because if I hadn't left, I wouldn't be holding an acceptance letter today and would have still been miserable there.

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Cons

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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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