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
1.0
May 26, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Gain some experience Free TV service Challenging assignments You will learn a lot about getting the biggest bang for the buck

Cons

Stress, stress, STRESSSSSS! If you can't handle a lot of stress look elsewhere for employment. - You have challenging tasks but the tools at your disposal are usually no better than 2nd rate. For example: haphazard deployment of basic office software - Many employees use Office 2003 and others have 2007. The accountants have apparently calculated that the losses in productivity are worth the cash saved on converting everyone to a newer version of Office all at once. -Micromanagement - This is a company where the CEO used to sign every check over $1,000 - and the CEO still signs every check over $100,000. Throughout the company there is widespread reluctance to delegate responsibilities (although the micromanagement culture is only one reason for this). -Corporate culture - There are a lot of wonderful people working at Dish - but the overall tone set by the leadership is terrible. Often strangers who are familiar with the Dish corporate culture will say "Really? I'm sorry to hear that" when you tell them you work for Dish. Google "toxic leadership" to find out what you should expect to experience while working for Dish. The company is riddled with potential case studies for this topic. -High turnover - Most employees have had more than enough of the Dish corporate culture before they have been with the company for 5 years. Since the company is constantly hemorrhaging experienced, skilled workers there a lot of others who have responsibilities which they either don't have the bandwidth for or lack the skill and experience to handle. This contributes to the micromanagement culture - nobody wants to risk their job by sending critical tasks to someone who likely doesn't have the skill and experience required.

4.0
May 25, 2012

Fun place to work til you start to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great emplyers. very fun place. Care about their employees

Cons

Unfair with the scheduling. it's a call center

2.0
May 17, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A place to grab a quick paycheck

Cons

Full of lies from interview to training to graduation to sales floor. You start out in this interview process with coaches who just simply run the interview and tell you EVERYTHING that you want to hear. They tell you that their top reps are making $80k-$90k per year. This may have been true in the past and they may have had 1 or 2 reps do that out of 600. Then they give you this line of bull that "they have been given permission to hire a few hundred reps and they are going to fill the center" which has a hundred empty desks which cannot be filled because people quit so fast or are fired so fast that they can never hire enough to fill the empty desks. Then you are told in training how easy this job is, you are only selling TV, they call you, follow the script and you'll make thousands a week. They lie about the hiring process week after week after week. They give you 2 weeks of classroom training that does NOT prepare you for the idiots that call in wanting service, but have no money, no credit or debit card. You are NOT TOLD that there is a close ratio goal of 30% when you get on the sales floor. It's 28% and you are doing well....hang on, yes I said 28%! Close ration goal of 28%....why is this? If you get a call and the customer lives on a 3rd floor or above apartment, you cannot sell them, you have to send them to a third party installer...but YOU GET NAILED on your close ratio. You CANNOT close them as a rule, but it goes against your close ratio. What dumb ass came up with that...Oh his name is Kerin or something not normal close to that. If you get a call from a person that is ALREADY a customer and they just want to ask a question, IT GOES AGAINST YOUR CLOSE RATIO! If you get a call and the call DROPS, IT GOES AGAINST YOUR CLOSE RATIO! You take 15 to 30 minutes dealing with some idiot people only to find out that they have No Credit or Debit card so you cannot close them....yep goes against your close ratio, answer from Management is to beg them to ask someone to sign up for them, customer has no money, beg them to borrow from someone. I had my coach tell this guy to knock on his neighbors door to ask for $42, neighbor slammed the door on him of course. They have a sales bonus that is stupid as hell as well which was great but because too many reps were making money then raised the goal and now hardly anyone makes it.....how do you get this? Sell customers packages that they DONT need or want. BUT you do one wrong thing and they penalize you financially.....they record the calls and if you make a mistake they give you Auto Fails and Non Negoiables.....they take 3 sales away if you make a mistake on 1 sale. This is a ridiculous place to work and the coaches walk around trying to keep people positive in a extremely negative environment. The coaches lie to everyone telling them the same story....they make money when you make money so if you are getting all crap calls and not making sales, they actually tell you that it YOU and NOT THE CALLS. You can have tons of calls that you can do nothing about and no way to close, but they say your not following the script, your tone is negative....how about the idiot marketing people are trying to get every deadbeat they can with $19.99 package that NO ONE wants or can use

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