After a phone call, I was given a long programming problem with a week to finish. I finished and submitted the programming problem and was invited for an on-site interview.
During the on-site interview we reviewed the code in person and the tech director was very pleased with my solution. When he learned about my NoSQL experience he brought in a team member to sit in on the interview to learn about the pros/cons of NoSQL so he too could implement it at Tempus himself. Free knowledge sharing disguised as an interview - how ethical, right?
Last interview was with the Chief Operating Officer (VP at the time or something). He asked why I was leaving my old job. When I answered it was because I really liked the position offered at Tempus and found the work interesting he started accusing me of trying to mislead him about the reason. He repeated the question multiple times and when I answered genuinely the same way he got frustrated and told me I was not telling him the full story.
He later told the recruiter that I didn't seem interested in the position and seemed to still like my old job. Really, that's the reason why I didn't get an offer.
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.