If you're not basic, they hate you - Clinical Lab Associate Tempus AI Employee Review

2.0
Oct 10, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free snacks and drinks, but not meals

Cons

The honest truth is Tempus AI (or labs or whatever they rebranded as) hates you if you're neurodiverse. Yeah, I said it because it's true. They underpay and overwork all their employees, medical degrees and PhDs alike. They always talked about the opportunity for career advancement, but never gave the opportunity. Being hardworking and punctual simply isn't enough if you don't play their stupid games. You must be fascinated with intriguing topics like the weather and sportsball to fit in with the most basic, boring people imaginable. If you don't watch reality TV, forget about your career. Because that's what matters for climbing this company's social ladder. In short, you better be: smart, hardworking, punctual, and basic af because that's the only way to have a chance at advancing at this company. I hope the billionaire owner Eric gets the wealth tax he deserves.

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5.0
Jul 4, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good place to work at, very impactful work.

Cons

No cons i can think of tbh.

1.0
Jul 19, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* The short seller report said the executives have a "history of promoting disruptive technology companies, cashing out early, and leaving public shareholders with losses or lackluster returns". Taking this into account as well as other factors, I was able to cash out RSUs at much higher share prices than the stock is currently trading at.

Cons

* The other reviews that mention bullying and verbal or psychological abuse are along the lines of what I saw. In addition, it seems to be a feature and not a bug. In other words, the people in charge seem to believe that people work better when being abused. Instead of using regular means of incentives or motivation like pay or enjoyable work environment, fear of abuse or losing one's job is the main tool of getting others to do work. If you're not at least enabling bullying and abuse, you'll always be on the outside and never trusted. * This company changed its name from Tempus Labs to Tempus AI in what seems to be a big grift. The stock jumped for a bit because Nancy Pelosi bought the stock (yay corruption). The engineering is a joke and often engineers have their performance judged by non technical managers who joined some lab company called Tempus Labs years ago. In all fairness, the people often in charge of engineering decisions didn't join a tech company so they're setup to fail.

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