Tempus

Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience

January 31, 2020

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online on their website and was promptly reached out to by their recruiter. The recruiter asked questions about my work experience and said that I'd be receiving a coding assessment as the next step.

Received a Codility coding assessment with 3 coding questions: 1 easy and 2 medium-level questions. It was specifically mentioned that the assessment would focus on the correctness and accuracy of the code, not the efficiency or performance. I completed all the questions and submitted it with an hour to spare.

Codility gave a correctness score of 100% for each of the challenges. However, I received an automated reject response from their recruiter, citing a better fit. There were no responses to my follow-up emails thereafter from the recruiter.

Why waste a candidate's time by asking them to complete a 3-hour coding assessment if they didn't find a profile match at all?

Questions

Algorithmic questions with 1 easy and 2 medium level difficulty.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 12 interview experiences for the Tempus Senior Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

17%

Pass Rate

Tempus's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive25%

Neutral8%

Negative67%

Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Tempus's Senior Software Engineer interview process in United States.

Tempus Work Experiences

Good Learning, Bad Pay

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Engineering environment isn't too bad. Learned a lot. The context of the data is cool. Other engineers are pretty chill. Low stress.

Cons: CTO's friend is failing upward and causing everyone to leave. Pay is way below market value, and there's no 401k match.

Good Learning, Bad Pay

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Engineering environment isn't too bad. Learned a lot. The context of the data is cool. Other engineers are pretty chill. Low stress.

Cons: CTO's friend is failing upward and causing everyone to leave. Pay is way below market value, and there's no 401k match.

Low Pay, High Attrition, Depends on Manager

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pros: If you have a good manager, your life will be easy. Codebases are generally well maintained, the business itself is interesting, and teammates are talented and easy to work with. Truly a great working environment day-to-day. I have never felt pressured about taking too much PTO, and I have a great work/life balance. But again, this heavily depends on your team. Note: This is heavily scoped to working as a software engineer. Teams are constantly getting new designers, PMs, and QA engineers. They then get shared across multiple teams and tend to not stay too long on one team, leading to a sense that no one has the full picture of what's going on on a team.

Cons: The mission is constantly used to justify problems in the company. Low compensation and raises have led to high attrition rates across departments. The CEO will frequently, publicly thank employees for "burning the midnight oil". The CEO waffles on whether employees will be required to come back into the office, leading to everyone worrying they'll be fired if they want to work remote. This has tanked morale (in my department at least), immediately after a round of low raises. Feedback disappears into a "you talk to your manager, they talk to their manager, who talks to their manager..." vacuum. It is very hierarchical.

Low Pay, High Attrition, Depends on Manager

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pros: If you have a good manager, your life will be easy. Codebases are generally well maintained, the business itself is interesting, and teammates are talented and easy to work with. Truly a great working environment day-to-day. I have never felt pressured about taking too much PTO, and I have a great work/life balance. But again, this heavily depends on your team. Note: This is heavily scoped to working as a software engineer. Teams are constantly getting new designers, PMs, and QA engineers. They then get shared across multiple teams and tend to not stay too long on one team, leading to a sense that no one has the full picture of what's going on on a team.

Cons: The mission is constantly used to justify problems in the company. Low compensation and raises have led to high attrition rates across departments. The CEO will frequently, publicly thank employees for "burning the midnight oil". The CEO waffles on whether employees will be required to come back into the office, leading to everyone worrying they'll be fired if they want to work remote. This has tanked morale (in my department at least), immediately after a round of low raises. Feedback disappears into a "you talk to your manager, they talk to their manager, who talks to their manager..." vacuum. It is very hierarchical.

Can't beat the mission!

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pros: I've worked for over 5 companies, and I feel like I finally found my long-term fit. * Working on Cancer Care, you can't beat that. Everyone here is passionate about the mission, and it drives everything we work on. * Some of the best people I've worked with. Great talent, hard workers, and easy to get along with. * We are really working on the cutting edge of medical science, so there are some crazy interesting challenges to solve. * A modern tech stack coupled with a microservice architecture allows us to get things done, and quickly! This is a very rare company. I'm excited about coming to work in the morning, and that's not something I expected myself to say about work.

Cons: Because of the aforementioned speed, it comes with some chaos. If you are expecting tons of direction and handholding, this will not be a good fit for you.

Can't beat the mission!

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pros: I've worked for over 5 companies, and I feel like I finally found my long-term fit. * Working on Cancer Care, you can't beat that. Everyone here is passionate about the mission, and it drives everything we work on. * Some of the best people I've worked with. Great talent, hard workers, and easy to get along with. * We are really working on the cutting edge of medical science, so there are some crazy interesting challenges to solve. * A modern tech stack coupled with a microservice architecture allows us to get things done, and quickly! This is a very rare company. I'm excited about coming to work in the morning, and that's not something I expected myself to say about work.

Cons: Because of the aforementioned speed, it comes with some chaos. If you are expecting tons of direction and handholding, this will not be a good fit for you.

Good Learning, Bad Pay

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Engineering environment isn't too bad. Learned a lot. The context of the data is cool. Other engineers are pretty chill. Low stress.

Cons: CTO's friend is failing upward and causing everyone to leave. Pay is way below market value, and there's no 401k match.

3.0
Good Learning, Bad Pay
Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee
May 18, 2022
Pros: Engineering environment isn't too bad. Learned a lot. The context of the data is cool. Other engineers are pretty chill. Low stress.
Cons: CTO's friend is failing upward and causing everyone to leave. Pay is way below market value, and there's no 401k match.

Low Pay, High Attrition, Depends on Manager

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pros: If you have a good manager, your life will be easy. Codebases are generally well maintained, the business itself is interesting, and teammates are talented and easy to work with. Truly a great working environment day-to-day. I have never felt pressured about taking too much PTO, and I have a great work/life balance. But again, this heavily depends on your team. Note: This is heavily scoped to working as a software engineer. Teams are constantly getting new designers, PMs, and QA engineers. They then get shared across multiple teams and tend to not stay too long on one team, leading to a sense that no one has the full picture of what's going on on a team.

Cons: The mission is constantly used to justify problems in the company. Low compensation and raises have led to high attrition rates across departments. The CEO will frequently, publicly thank employees for "burning the midnight oil". The CEO waffles on whether employees will be required to come back into the office, leading to everyone worrying they'll be fired if they want to work remote. This has tanked morale (in my department at least), immediately after a round of low raises. Feedback disappears into a "you talk to your manager, they talk to their manager, who talks to their manager..." vacuum. It is very hierarchical.

2.0
Low Pay, High Attrition, Depends on Manager
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Chicago, Illinois, United States
April 5, 2022
Pros: If you have a good manager, your life will be easy. Codebases are generally well maintained, the business itself is interesting, and teammates are talented and easy to work with. Truly a great working environment day-to-day. I have never felt pressured about taking too much PTO, and I have a great work/life balance. But again, this heavily depends on your team. Note: This is heavily scoped to working as a software engineer. Teams are constantly getting new designers, PMs, and QA engineers. They then get shared across multiple teams and tend to not stay too long on one team, leading to a sense that no one has the full picture of what's going on on a team.
Cons: The mission is constantly used to justify problems in the company. Low compensation and raises have led to high attrition rates across departments. The CEO will frequently, publicly thank employees for "burning the midnight oil". The CEO waffles on whether employees will be required to come back into the office, leading to everyone worrying they'll be fired if they want to work remote. This has tanked morale (in my department at least), immediately after a round of low raises. Feedback disappears into a "you talk to your manager, they talk to their manager, who talks to their manager..." vacuum. It is very hierarchical.

Can't beat the mission!

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pros: I've worked for over 5 companies, and I feel like I finally found my long-term fit. * Working on Cancer Care, you can't beat that. Everyone here is passionate about the mission, and it drives everything we work on. * Some of the best people I've worked with. Great talent, hard workers, and easy to get along with. * We are really working on the cutting edge of medical science, so there are some crazy interesting challenges to solve. * A modern tech stack coupled with a microservice architecture allows us to get things done, and quickly! This is a very rare company. I'm excited about coming to work in the morning, and that's not something I expected myself to say about work.

Cons: Because of the aforementioned speed, it comes with some chaos. If you are expecting tons of direction and handholding, this will not be a good fit for you.

5.0
Can't beat the mission!
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Chicago, Illinois, United States
June 26, 2019
Pros: I've worked for over 5 companies, and I feel like I finally found my long-term fit. * Working on Cancer Care, you can't beat that. Everyone here is passionate about the mission, and it drives everything we work on. * Some of the best people I've worked with. Great talent, hard workers, and easy to get along with. * We are really working on the cutting edge of medical science, so there are some crazy interesting challenges to solve. * A modern tech stack coupled with a microservice architecture allows us to get things done, and quickly! This is a very rare company. I'm excited about coming to work in the morning, and that's not something I expected myself to say about work.
Cons: Because of the aforementioned speed, it comes with some chaos. If you are expecting tons of direction and handholding, this will not be a good fit for you.

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