Tempus

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.

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.

Place more value on quality. It's people's most personal data.

Why aren't we being more careful?

Have training on how to treat healthcare data other than a slideshow on day 1.

Hire more women and people of color and treat them better.

Let go of toxic people and identify them with more regular 360* reviews.

Encourage engineers to produce quality software rather than cutting corners.