DISH reviews

2.7

31% would recommend to a friend

(7,814 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 7,814 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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1.0
Apr 7, 2011
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Pros

- lots of experience and cross training due to revolving door of employees - Most managers hate the ones above them, so there are some good first line managers that watch out for their people - Reasonable time off as long as you don't plan on being gone more than a few days at a time - I had a cool boss so I was treated pretty well, but had to watch the train wrecks around me

Cons

- Initial offer was laughable. They tried to offer what I had asked for when applying for a job 6 years ago, and I had to justify why they should even match my previous salary. - Benefits are horrible, hope your spouse has a better plan - Work from home? No. Never. If it's a BLIZZARD is expected you will get a "be prepared" email from HR. Their answer to avoid danger on the roads is to stay at hotel by the office. - Charlie sticks his head into way too many meetings and doesn't trust his employees. That's why you hire experts. - They are proud of never having layoffs. Instead they do mass firings and make up a performance number that everyone is supposed to hit (changes with each firing). This way they don't pay unemployment.

1.0
Oct 11, 2010

It's a bad place - but they pay

Anonymous employee
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Pros

1) They pay. 2) There's always job openings (because others are leaving at an astonishing rate). 3) It's an interesting industry.

Cons

1) They don't care. It doesn't matter who "they" is, or where you work, or what your title is. To DISH, you are a policy follower. The degree to which you follow policies, no matter how mindnumbing or timewasting, the better. 2) Morale is terrible. Look at DISH's rankings as compared to similar workplaces. The company is known as the worst employer in the Denver metro area. 3) Hiring is arbitrary. In order for someone to get hired, they need the approval of not just the immediate hiring manager, but also the director, VP, and CIO. They need to pass not only a drug test and a compatibility test, but also several intelligent tests. They need to wait for many weeks for all this to shake out, and then they need to be willing to accept the moderate pay, horrible benefits, and terrible reputation of the company. As a result, the company is chronically understaffed. 4) Firings are typical. When I was hired, I was told with pride that DISH had never had a layoff in its corporate history. What I was not told is that we have regular mass firings, punctuated by intermittant departmental purges that cull the staff. Indeed, management is required to have a stack ranking of all departmental employees, and this is used to eliminate folks for a wide variety of reasons (e.g., personality conflicts, high salaries, poorly executed releases, etc.). No one - I repeat, no one - feels safe at DISH.

2.0
Sep 6, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Easy to get hired on at entry level. Can promote if you go through the correct hoops. Good on the resume.

Cons

Poor benefits, heath care. LOOOOOONG hours with LOW pay!!! No recognition for going the extra mile. A simple at-a-boy goes far. Not given the right resources for the job. To many chiefs and not enough Indians!

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