All work and no play, toxic environment - Associate Research Scientist Tempus AI Employee Review

1.0
Apr 4, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Often hiring, good branding, new office, barista on-site (but really the drinks are just okay)

Cons

Lowest salaries and difficult to get equity. WIth unlimited vacation you end up being afraid to ask and don't get PTO payout. If you complain, then you are made to feel bad like "well this environment is too fast for you, it's a startup, you have to work quicker" and then they question if you even care about the patients. Everything the JDAs say is true. Management was mean to them from the start, making snide remarks and jokes at their expense in front of the entire company. Other teams are also dealing with the same crap of being overworked with the expectation that you work forever with "voluntary" overtime all the time. There's no more work smart mentality, just work until you're burnt out, but you can't burn out because you're so easily replaceable. Sales and Operation teams are treated like Gods, which makes the rest of us undervalued.

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5.0
Jul 4, 2026
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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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