I applied online. I interviewed at Tempus AI (New York, NY) in July 2020
Interview
The process was pretty standard. Do a take home Codility assignment with 3 questions and then a 3 hour virtual interview with several members of the team. The questions weren't too difficult.
Like a few of the reviews mentioned, the recruiter mentioned that there were positive comments for me, but then I was given a rejection letter within a couple days. Understandable because he did warn me that they were interviewing someone else for the role.
But beware, it seems the recruiting team likes to get your hopes up, only to send a pretty generic copy and paste rejection letter.
My piece of advice would be to temper your expectations until they offer you the job. It's all part of the hiring game, but just know that Tempus has a habit of interviewing several candidates for the role. So even if you did well, doesn't mean you'll get the job.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
1 Design question explaining how I would architect a system
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Tempus AI in Jan 2025
Interview
The interview process was
1. Recruiter Screen
2. Video call with the team - Mostly behavioral
3. 3 hour on-site - System Design, Leetcode, Behavioral, and Leadership
All 3 stages were fine. Although after dedicating 5 hours of my time and taking a half a day of PTO for the onsite, I was ignored when I asked for feedback.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
https://leetcode.ca/all/269.html
The alien dictionary leetcode question
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Tempus AI in Apr 2024
Interview
Codily Exam, followed by an on-site. Process was smooth, but then they low ball you on the final offer. I guess they think people will take any offer they throw in this market, but now that their stock price is known, it's much easier to calculate how low this initial offer was. Good interview practice at least.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Build a coffee shop app with a queue in a system design round
Extremely long 5 round process, even if you arrive to the best solution in the live coding round they will string you along for 2 months before giving you a template rejection email. This is the second time this company has subjected me to a horrendously long interviewing process, I will never apply here again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tour de france, given an unordered array of tuples representing the legs of a race with the first element being the start city of that leg and the second element being the end city for that leg, write an algorithm that prints each city in order.