Kite Pharma reviews

3.7

64% would recommend to a friend

(506 total reviews)
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Cindy Perettie

69% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Kite Pharma has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 506 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Kite Pharma employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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506 reviews
2.0
Aug 21, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

no amount of free food can make me stay at a toxic work environment

Cons

1. It was always a SM vs. EM (the two research sites) 2. Upper management is fully aware of this culture and does nothing to get rid of this mentality

2.0
Aug 18, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good place to learn about GMP environment and learn about cell therapy - Get your feet and hands wet as you have a chance to work inside and outside of clean room - Friendly people to work with - A lot of free snacks and drinks. - Great benefits including health, dental, vision, even gym membership/ equipments reimbursement - I got lucky with my Supervisors. They are very understanding and push me to go further. They have their hand tied with upper management so there are times they can not help much beside listening to complaints. - The company has transitioned to electronic batch record. This means you don't have to write and sign as much as paper lots.

Cons

- Very difficult to move up since there are too little higher up position open up - It is very typical silo manufacture company. If you get hired for QC/manufacture/Kitting etc. You get stuck there. Very little chance to none for cross department training - A lot fo office politic since everyone all wants to stand out and prove themselves. It could rub other coworkers the wrong way. It feels like upper management and some co-workers always find some faults in your work regardless how well you perform. - Dream work makes team work. This means if you are good at your job, you will be the go to person to get more work. - If you are 6 months in, it is just a 9-5 job. A lot of people who have been working there for years are very unhappy. - The roles, responsibility and title keep changing. You can work there for 2 years and have the same title as a new employee (depending on their employment history). Probably the same pay. - You can be in the clean room 6-7 hour a day with full on Hazmaz suit. This come with the job so if you can't handle wearing PPE all days, beware of this before you applies here.

4.0
Aug 16, 2021

all round

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

company is very international career growth perspectives are good easy parking impressive covid measurements

Cons

building is new but small building is noisy a lot is paper based

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