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
3.0
Apr 16, 2021

Opportunity, but set appropriate expectations

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Tempus has a great story with a clear mission. Hires amazing talent and truly great people. Significant freedom to spent time on personal interest, and generally shape day to day. Personable coworkers, great work life balance with flexible hours and above average pay for the tech side of the house. Enjoyable office (when that matters again). Continued hyperinflation and hiring sprees are starting to show the cracks, but there will always be latest and greatest to explore. Successful pivot to covid testing in 2020 shows the promise of Tempus and was no easy feat. With Lightbank backing, some degree of success is all but assured if you have the patience to deal with the downsides and can deal with the idea of a company this size thinking it can still be run like it has 50 people.

Cons

No 401k match. Your experience will depend entirely on your expectations. If you are beyond entry level, do not expect any room for professional development because there are no clear roles or expectations. Significantly inflated titles for most "managers" with very little outside experience makes itself clear very quickly. Tempus is just doing way too much, way too fast. It's clearly making it up as it goes and there is no long term strategy. Nothing is ever actually complete before being distracted by the next shiny thing. Most initiatives are engineering led meaning there's often little link to any specific business goal. You'll soon tire of chaos for chaos sake and erratic direction. Most days are an exercise in (fake) crisis management without clear lines of decision making or executive boundaries. Over reliance on kudos and compliments on how "genius" everyone is tends to be a sign no one actually knows why what they're doing matters. All this leads to an incredibly jaded workforce.

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Tempus AI Response
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We appreciate you taking the time to provide us with all this feedback! We're happy to hear that you’re inspired by the mission, and the coworkers you’re surrounded by. It’s absolutely true that we move very quickly here, and we recognize the need for a focus on professional development and support for managers. We’re putting a lot of thought into addressing that this year, and moving forward, and we hope that this addresses some of the concerns you’ve listed. Our Talent Development team is here if you ever want to discuss offline. The People Ops Team
3.0
Jul 18, 2018

Great mission, poor management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Highly intelligent and qualified people all around, great coworkers, noble mission

Cons

Poor culture driven by a few people in the business operations department

2.0
Jul 22, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

There’s awesome people that work here that also happen to be super smart.

Cons

Was “let go” for not having the (mental) capacity to do the job. After working here for 7 months and finishing tasks and putting out good work, this reasoning was quite confusing. If this isn’t a red flag to those applying at Tempus, I’m not sure what is. No benefits beyond healthcare and your salary. No tuition assistance (that I know of) or 401k matching.

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