Color Health

Population health genetics platform
Last updated:
February 3, 2026
Company details
HQ
HEADCOUNT
100-499
ORG TYPE
Startup
SECTOR
Healthcare & Life Sciences
About the company
Color is a population health technology company that started in clinical genetics and has increasingly positioned the business around cancer prevention, screening, and end-to-end cancer care delivery. Public hiring pages describe a “Virtual Cancer Clinic” model that blends clinical teams with software to guide people through screening, diagnosis, treatment support, and survivorship. The company sells through organizations like employers, unions, and health plans, which shows up in the role mix across clinical operations and enterprise go-to-market. Color also runs niche early-career education pathways tied to genetic counseling.
Locations and presence
Color lists a headquarters in Burlingame and also references South San Francisco on the careers page. Many roles are listed as Remote (USA), meaning early-career access can depend heavily on whether a role is licensed-clinical, commercial, or onsite lab/engineering.
Palpable Score
51.8
/ 100
Color has strong basic candidate safeguards and benefit transparency on some postings, but the current job mix is not early-career friendly. The main score limiters are repeated layoff signals and thin public proof of junior progression and retention.
Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

7.8
/ 20
  • The company lists a small, senior-heavy set of current openings on the official careers page, with many “Head of” and “Senior” roles rather than 0–2 year tracks.
  • Color offers at least one structured early-career pathway through the Lauren Ryan Memorial Summer Scholar Program, a paid genetic counseling internship with scholarship support and supervised clinical rotation.
  • The company has posted internships in the past (for example Software Engineering Intern roles on external job boards), but those are not consistently visible as a recurring pipeline in the current openings list.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

12.5
/ 20
  • The company publishes a detailed recruitment fraud warning (including “verify by emailing careers@color.com”) and provides an accommodations contact route for applicants who need support in the process.
  • Color job ads surfaced on major platforms show concrete pay ranges and benefits details (salary bands, 401k match, stipends, and parental leave), which reduces late-stage surprises.
  • The company has mixed candidate experience signals on interview platforms, including reports of long interview loops and ghosting after later rounds.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

10.5
/ 20
  • The company runs a supervised, mentorship-heavy internship model in genetic counseling, including clinical rotation, special projects, and exposure to multidisciplinary teams.
  • Color’s role ecosystem (clinical operations + product/engineering + enterprise teams) can create real cross-functional learning for early-career hires when those roles exist in-market.
  • The company does not publicly show consistent, company-wide early-career support mechanics (buddy systems, defined ramp plans, or published progression frameworks) across the job ads most candidates will see.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

13.5
/ 20
  • The company includes pay ranges on multiple postings that appear on job platforms, including base salary bands for commercial roles.
  • Color lists tangible stability benefits in at least one employer-provided posting, including 401k match, parental leave, company-wide recharge days, phone and wifi stipend, and an ergonomic stipend.
  • The company uses a mix of employee and contractor clinician roles (including 1099 postings), and pay-range coverage is not uniform across all roles and channels, which caps transparency.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

7.5
/ 20
  • The company has widely reported layoffs tied to the wind-down of COVID-19 testing work, including reporting that Color cut hundreds of roles in early 2023.
  • Color has ongoing employee-review themes referencing multiple rounds of layoffs and constrained growth opportunities, which is a direct early-career retention and progression risk.
  • The company does not publish early-career outcome proof (time-to-promotion, retention over 12–24 months, or conversion rates from internships), so outcomes scoring is limited by missing data rather than branding.

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