Tempus AI reviews

3.0

45% would recommend to a friend

(607 total reviews)
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Eric Lefkofsky

44% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Tempus AI has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 607 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Tempus AI employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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607 reviews
1.0
Sep 11, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The ability to make an impact on cancer research.

Cons

I worked at Tempus long enough to know that all of the negative reviews on here are more authentic than this company's culture will ever be. The lack of management experience is really disrupting employee retention. I would not recommend this company.

2.0
Apr 5, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

If you have a good manager, your life will be easy. Codebases are generally well maintained, the business itself is interesting, teammates are talented and easy to work with. Truly a great working environment and day-to-day. Have never felt pressured about taking too much PTO, and I have a great work/life balance. But again, this heavily depends on your team. Note this is heavily scoped to "work as a software engineer". Teams are constantly getting new designers/PMs/QA engineers, who then get shared across multiple teams, and tend to not stay too long on one team, leading to a sense that no one has the full picture of what's going on on a team.

Cons

"The mission" is constantly used to justify problems in the company. Low compensation and raises has led to high attrition rates across departments. CEO will frequently, publicly thank employees for "burning the midnight oil". The CEO waffles on whether employees will be required to come back into the office, leading to everyone worrying they'll be fired if they want to work remote. This has tanked morale (in my department at least), immediately after a round of low raises. Feedback disappears into a "you talk to your manager, they talk to their manager, who talks to their manager ..." vacuum. Very hierarchical.

2.0
Jan 14, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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