A toxic work culture that’s only getting worse with new leadership - Quality Control Kite Pharma Employee Review

2.0
Apr 14, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You are a part of life changing therapies for patients. Good benefits.

Cons

Unfortunately, there are more cons than pros. 1. Bad communication: constant lack of clarity around projects- don’t be surprised about a new ask that’s a rush with no time to prepare. Different employees receiving different messages ( hearing things through the grapevine). Passive aggressive communication from leadership and coworkers. Failure to listen to solutions to problems. Constant “off-hours” communication. 2. Cliques, exclusion, and gossipy behavior: constant feeling of exclusion from groups of people. Projects and promotions are offered to particular groups of people who are “in” with upper management. 3. Poor leadership: the management here is okay with gossiping about lower level employees to lower level employees. Unprofessional behavior in many ways than one. No real direction to a future vision. 4. Stifled growth: no real mobility, learning opportunities, or mentorship. 5. Rapid turnover rate: the greatest sign of a toxic work environment. Lots of disorganization, lack of direction, bad leadership, and little opportunity. 6. Poor work life balance: don’t be surprised if you get emails and messages when you’re off of work because of a new ask that’s now a priority- meaning you have to constantly change your personal schedule to fit the needs of the company’s. 7. You will get burned out here: you will put lots of energy into your work with the hopes that the output will be rewarding but you don’t see positive outcomes. Or you may feel burned out because you feel under challenged and bored because all other opportunities are given to other people. 8. Unmotivated coworkers: you may shoulder a ton of work that they aren’t handling, but after all the cons from above... can you blame them for feeling unmotivated?

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Pros

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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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