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November 11, 2025

How to get a job at Tandem Health: ‘If you’re just looking for a job, I wouldn’t come here’

Sweden’s buzzy startup’s team has ballooned from fourteen to ninety over the last year


The team behind Tandem Health. Image provided by Tandem Health.

Stockholm-based Tandem Health has had a busy year. 

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Maya Dharampal-Hornby is Sifted's editorial assistant and producer of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast .

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