Horrible Company - Anonymous employee Kite Pharma Employee Review

1.0
2 Oct 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Salary if you don’t mind being miserable.

Cons

-Woke DEI policies. They train people to favor “diverse candidates” instead of focusing on merit and results. -Leadership, which they don’t act like leaders, has progressively gotten worse over time. -Unqualified leadership. Many don’t have any background in the function they manage prior to assuming their current role. Others are hired, probably to meet DEI quotas, but have no experience at companies with real products or revenue. -Leadership that is clearly self serving based on their actions. Not here for the patient. -Go along to get along culture. We’re told speaking up is encouraged but in reality dissenting opinions are punished. -Favoritism and formation of high school-ish social clicks is rampant. If you’re not part of the “in crowd” or liked by the site head then good luck getting any opportunities. -“Leadership”/SLT that sabotages you behind your back. -Biased end of year review process. -Leadership will set up no-win situations for employees they don’t like in order to manipulate HR processes intended to protect employees. -Avoid this company at all costs. It’s not worth the gamble. -I go to work every day hoping for the best and maintaining professionalism with my interactions but am always quickly reminded of how much disdain leadership has for me even though they barely talk to me and never make any effort to interact. I’m not sure what I’ve done to these people or how I can fix it. I’m never given any guidance. I’m just made to feel like a piece of trash every day. This place has sucked the life out of me.

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Pros

Amazing staff and growth potential

Cons

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1.0
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Pros

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Cons

The work environment is extremely toxic and hostile towards those that are efficient and good at their responsibilities and roles. The workplace favors extreme incompetence across manufacturing, technical training and quality departments. I’ve never seen a company where associates can get into physical altercations and still keep their jobs. The people leaders that tried to hide that altercation should be cut immediately but that’s not what they like to do over at kite pharma where instead of focusing on the cure they like to focus on other people’s bodies. They like to reward incompetence with less responsibilities and praise while those who are competent enough get reprimanded with made up lies. There’s no point in providing feedback to the people leaders because they will twist your words in order to make it so that it looks like you are going against their precious core values. It doesn’t matter what you say because once they’ve made up their minds that you’re not exhibiting enough teamwork and inclusion then that’s it. If you’re not competent enough at your job then for sure there will big bonuses and raises waiting at year end review. People leaders will absolutely twist and turn the HR processes that are designed to protect personnel against them. There’s a lot of heavy abuse when it comes to making a complaint against any individual. Lots of biases involved since it seems that no one at this company have friends outside of work so they take everything as a personal attack on their “friends”. Lots of individuals needs to be tiptoed around on eggshells or they might get offended at the slightest breeze, people leaders don’t see that these people are the problem but insist on turning a blind eye labeling it as anti-inclusive , anti-teamwork, anti-collaboration and whatnot. Never know when the next person is going to get offended and start acting like they have been a victim their entire life

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