I applied online. I interviewed at Tempus AI (New York, NY) in May 2020
Interview
I applied online and the recruiter contacted me to schedule the initial phone interview a few days later. That goes well and I get a link to take a Codility challenge. The amount of time given was more than enough to complete the 2 programming questions.
That went well and we scheduled for on-site which consisted of hiring manager, product manager, system design, and technical coding interviews. The on-site goes well and I actually enjoyed speaking with everyone. A few days later, the recruiter emails me that the team had all positive feedback and he should be able to relay something more in-depth later towards the middle of the week. I follow up again after I hear nothing, only for the recruiter to reassure me that he should be able to relay something over and that I’m a “top-candidate”. Come the end of the week and I get an automated email with rejection and no feedback.
It’s very off putting to be led on with nothing but positives and (at the very least) promise of feedback for more than a week when I told the recruiter already that I was on a time crunch with other companies’ offers but really considered joining them instead.
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.