Tempus AI reviews

- The pay is systematically below market with raises tightly restricted to once a year. If you get an offer well below market, be willing to work for that amount for awhile - a big raise probably isn't coming anytime soon. - Everything is urgent all the time. Part of this is just the nature of providing cancer testing: time is critical for the patients waiting on results. But what this means as an employee is that you will be expected to do critical work with too little time. It's stressful. Also, as an engineer, it may mean that putting out fires through glorified tech support has to take precedent over writing code. And, like many places, unpaid overtime through "on-call hours" is common.

1. The work culture is really bad (by design). Leadership doesn't really care about fostering team spirit and growth, but it encourages extreme selfishness and asslicking if you want to move up the corporate ladder or get a raise. 2. Certain team leads and VPs are notorious for throwing others under the bus to reach the top. And middle management follows suit, The favoritism is blatant, they don't even try to mask it. 2. Tempus is also quite racist - majority of their leadership is white, across teams spanning Legal, HR, Modeling lab, Comp bio, Data and sales. All the folks part of the "Presidents club" are white, mostly white men. It feels like a white boy frat club. And there are plenty of microaggressions against Asian/brown/black employees. Some managers deliberately don't provide clear instructions in writing to avoid accountability when things go south. Feedback given to female minorities is generally worse, with the expectation that they will remain quiet and keep their head down. Incredibly demotivating management, akin to toxic PIs in academia. Everything is urgent and last minute, that's really not sustainable and leads to a lot of burnout. 3. There is no real strategy for the company's growth, and there has been a lot of turnover at all levels specially in the past 2 years. Constant reorgs and team changes based on management whims. The RWD space is quite crowded and tempus is no longer the unicorns they claim to be, they really need to stop drinking their kool-aid.