DISH reviews

As a long term employee (over 10 years), I am sad to say it is not what used to be for women. in the last 5 years, upper management, the CEO, and Senior VPs, only promote men to Directors or above. Before, they used to put substance over style and schmoozing. The new CEO and the newer VPs prefer MEN who are good at telling them what they want to hear, even though they could not lead a team out of a room with a single door. The double standards for women to advance are ridiculous. The bar is set much higher. "A guy tells it like it is", if a women says the EXACT same thing they think "she's too aggressive". If she defends her team, she is argumentative, or ..."she's not ready" for a women, but for the guys it is "he has potential". The IT department has not hired or promoted a woman to Director level in over 5 years - in fact they lost the ones that were Directors (the last remaining woman Director in IT was hired over 8 years ago, hired under different management). The men who are chauvinists that no self respecting woman would work for (only contractors will) they recommend for leadership programs - but the woman who just got her MBA or the one that has been leading a team for years, gets shut out. The old southern white guy CEO is more impressed with birdbrained men who can schmooze and went to the "right" school, than finding and promoting any woman of substance. If you are a woman and want to move into senior management or a Director level job, you need to go elsewhere. I was enlisted in the Army for years, and I got more respect and had more opportunities for leadership roles and advancement than I do as a professional with a college degree currently at DISH.

Oh, boy, where do I begin. * It was OK until the last 6-9 months. There was a management change. I used to say that I worked for Sling, but it quickly became Dish. Most of my points about management were a result of this change. * Management did not listen to employee feedback at all. It seemed that management had the mentality of "Do as I say, don't talk back, don't ask questions, and tell me how good I am doing." Management had no desire to enable employees to do their jobs. Management only used employees to do things that would gain favor with their superiors. Since management was sycophants, they expected their employees to be sycophants as well. I just wanted to do a good job, that's it. I didn't want to have to play politics and always thing "What does the director really want?" or "How will thing make my manager look good?" Various issues came up and I had no support from my manager. Also, if ideas were proposed by management, there was very little room for feedback. But let's not forget that management was new and really didn't know how thing were done. * So much infighting. Seriously, this would put most legal dramas to shame how much infighting there was. IT and Product couldn't get along. With IT, it was dev vs non-dev. And even within the non-dev managers within IT, there was so much talking behind each others backs. Managers put on the the face that they know what they are doing, but it was obvious that it wasn't the case. You know, it is OK to ask for help sometimes from your employees. * They are not Scrum. They say they are Scrum, but they are not. They wanted to have managers attend retros which is a no-no within Scrum circles. * Communication within the entire org is just atrocious. It was always "trickle down" or "through the grapevine" types of communications. Rumor mills were rampant because there was no very clear communication. Something would need to be communicated, a manager would tell one person, they would then have that one person tell other people, and that's it. That's how information was spread. Also, any attempt at trying to change this behavior was met with resistance, almost as if you question a manager's authority because you provided a suggestion on how to do something differently. * They company is flat out cheap. They use the phrase "Spend money like it is your own", but they are just cheap. Benefits are horrible and the medical plan, well, at least it is a medical plan. If you really need a job, go ahead and work for Dish/Sling until you find something better. If you have any other options, take them.