DISH reviews

2.7

31% would recommend to a friend

(7,809 total reviews)
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Charlie Ergen

22% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

DISH has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 7,809 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The DISH employee rating is 24% below average for employers within the Telecomunicaciones industry (3.6 stars).

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8K reviews
2.0
Jul 3, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive salary, great coworkers for the most part, wonderful boss

Cons

Horrible benefits, zero severance pay, constant game of musical chairs at the executive level, employee stock option benefits are worth nothing. The most significant takeaway from my time there was that the left hand didn't know what the right hand was saying. There was complete dysfunction and contradiction from middle management all the way up to the CEO. There is no north star guiding this company's trajectory, and their leap into the postpaid wireless industry has been fraught with poor decision-making, leadership and long-term planning.

1.0
Jun 20, 2022

Avoid at all costs

Recommend
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Pros

None, don't work here, it's the worst company I've ever experienced, and I worked at McDonalds also.

Cons

They do absolutely nothing correctly. HR does absolutely nothing, other than the leaves team. All the hr generalists do is respond to emails with SOEs, they don't even handle terminations? Even though they have 4 or 5 complete different teams. Tons of standard HR and legal duties are delegated instead to basic supervisors(**WHO LACK THE PROPER EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE IN THESE AREAS ALSO**) , so the already understaffed and overworked in warehouse teams lose even more support, because sups have to make up for a complete lack of HR support. Opportunity is only the best benefit, IF YOURE A WHITE MALE ONLY. Women barely make it past lead, there's only 2 females above that out of a team of 20 males. I go days at a time without any acknowledgement at all from male management, and when I am, it's only negative interactions. I was told "no" to negotiating my salary, yet people at the same level as me were allowed to negotiate theirs, which is illegal and I'm assuming sexist, since the male supervisors were allowed to negotiate. I witnessed a violent situation in which the violent employee returned to work the very next day. They are also RACIST. They have multiple non English speaking employees, yet the training departments only train in English. Which is dangerous in a warehouse environment. And they refuse to provide them with translators or Spanish materials, etc. Just leave them to fend for themselves, and the supervisors have to try to make up for it. So they will not provide you with a safe environment nor can it be productive when it is severely understaffed constantly because poor polices prevent termination and job postings. I've submitted 9 hr requests, all are marked as "resolved", although none have been resolved. (Because you don't actually have a voice here) Benefits, one of the biggest ways a company can help you and your family, are horrendous. They do the bare minimum as a fortune 250 company, vs others that celebrate and take care of their employees. All of my care providers literally cringed at the difference in the benefits dish offered me, vs my last place of employment. I had to DECREASE my personal medical care to make up for the CEOs multiple vacation homes and lifestyle. So DISH's 3 promises, are completely untrue. Hostile, sexist, work environments where you're told to tread lightly is what they offer in reality. And no, DISH I WILL NOT SEND ANOTHER EMAIL, IVE ESCALATED 9 ISSUES, you have proven that you do not care.

1.0
Apr 29, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

DISH is really good at hiring good talent fresh out of school because many young people want to move to Colorado and are willing to accept the low pay just to move out to this state. So it is possible you will get to work with really great and smart people, at first (because they’ll quit in a year)

Cons

Where to even begin - horrible pay. I mean 30K underpaid base salary for highly technical or skilled roles at a minimum -horrible benefits. The healthcare options are so limited and expensive. The 401K match basically means nothing unless you stay at the company for 5 years (which I wouldn’t recommend). -NO flexibility. If your department has some ability to work from home, like marketing where we got 4 days per month, you will be afraid to use it for fear of it holding you back from “opportunities”. Not to mention you live with the constant fear that senior executives will take the ability to work from home away completely. So even if your direct manager allows you a -little- more flexibility you are afraid that tomorrow the senior leadership will wake up and decide to take it all away. -they would rather you risk your life driving in unsafe road conditions than work from home. Seriously. - people will tell you this is a great place to start your career because of “opportunity” but in reality you will learn terrible practices and have basically no training or onboarding. This will hurt your career in the long run because you won’t be getting the valuable mentorship from seasoned and talented professionals that you could get from more reputable companies. - it’s impossible to respect any of the senior leaders because they treat their employees with such little respect. Think 1980s toxic corporate culture where senior leaders curse and yell at people as they are presenting -if the numbers don’t show what senior leaders want to see, you will be either directly or indirectly encouraged to “run the numbers again” because they “don’t look right” therefore encouraging analysts to put forth numbers that are incorrect but will please senior leaders. - if you are a woman don’t work her. Seriously just don’t. There are so few women in leadership it’s embarrassing and it’s a direct result of the fact DISH offers NO paid maternity leave. - because managers receive VERY little training and practically NO DEI training, they tend to be very influenced by unconscious bias. Many of them try their best but simply don’t know how to effectively manage.

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