Pros: Helping improve cancer treatment by selling anonymized data to big pharma. Coolest mission of any company in the city. Massive valuation with a product to back it up. Free barista, smoothie Fridays.

Cons: Experience varies widely by job role at Tempus. If you're in the lower class, it will be awful every day and you'll absolutely regret accepting the offer. If you're in management or a more senior engineer, it will be tolerable or even good. Everyone is under massive time pressure with impossible expectations of your time, with no exception. Toxic people who meet deadlines are kept around. If you want to be outright rude but are a good engineer, this is the place for you. Culture is speed over quality. This is alarming when dealing with the world's largest cancer genomic dataset. Clueless managers, directors, and c-level people are tolerated, and more management are hired to "neutralize" them rather than letting go of the cruft. There is a glut of middle management without enough actual workers. Toxic environment for women and people of color. They never seem to stick around, yet no one in leadership sees this as a massive red flag. Actively discouraged by engineering managers from writing tests or any security features that would mean slower delivery of a feature.

Pros: Good people to work with.

Cons: It is hard to tell what the goals are, and the pay could be better.

Pros: Always working with smart people. You're solving cancer - that's awesome! Nearly everyone I came across was very nice. Work-life balance is decent (basically 9-5), apart from the on-call hours for engineers. Snacks in the kitchen. Cool office.

Cons: 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 a while; 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 precedence over writing code. And, like many places, unpaid overtime through "on-call hours" is common.