Inept Leadership at Executive Level - Director Ultragenyx Employee Review

2.0
Jul 15, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Generous salaries, benefits. Good mission by CEO to help rare disease patients that big pharma wont pursue.

Cons

Massively overpaid XLT for what they bring to the table to help Emil succeed. They have utterly failed him and spent colossal amounts of money hiring employees in manufacturing, building facilities, hiring ridiculous roles in quality/compliance to manage minimal risk at external CMOs. The one internal site they built, they failed the pre-approval inspection with a CRL from the FDA resulting in a 31 percent decline in stock price on Monday. The stock was deeply diluted since 2021 from approx. 60 million shares outstanding to 100 million shares while price tanked from 75/100 per share to 27/share resulting in destruction of market cap from 5/6 billion to 2.5 billion in 4 short years while losing money every year and accumulating billions of losses and paying the executives massive amounts of salaries, bonuses and options. Since it went public in 2014 and closed at 44/share, with four approved products, 11 years later it is at 27. The board has to investigate this gross negligence and mismanagement of the company and using the company like a piggy bank with accountability.

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Ultragenyx Response
12mo
We thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. As a values-driven company, we very much appreciate the feedback of our employees. If you would like to discuss any details about your time at Ultragenyx, including your concerns related to our executive management team, feel free to reach out to our Employee Relations team at EmployeeRelations@ultragenyx.com. We wish you well in your future endeavors.

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Cons

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Ultragenyx Response
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Thank you for your review and thoughtful feedback. We’re proud of the passion our teams bring to advancing therapies for patients, and we appreciate you sharing your perspective on how we work together. We’re glad to have you with us!
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As Organization very good, a lot of things to learn if you were Starter to Mid range experience. Colleagues, some managers are really nice and co-operative makes us to improve ourselves.

Cons

Constant lay offs. To many senior leads Positions which really don't have the real work for them not sure how organization estimating their contribution to the organization and having these many. Had very bad experience in last 6 months of work here. A team lead caused extremely hostile environment. Constant insulting, rude, belittle, derogatory, disparging,and condensending feedbacks. Micro managing and no trust on the team will really create a problematic work environment. And team members really don't have the opportunity to say any thing because of the way lead talks ( this incident about one lead only). Organization should train these leads how to treat employees / team/ subordinates respectfully to protect and retain the good talent. Ofcourse there is always chances of mistakes happens occasionally. But these incidents we faced are pure hostile and insulting

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Ultragenyx Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience. We appreciate your positive feedback on learning opportunities and colleagues, and we also take concerns about leadership behavior and workplace environment seriously. If you’d like to discuss further, our Employee Relations team is available at EmployeeRelations@ultragenyx.com.
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