DISH reviews

Ridiculous management; unlike any other place I have worked. Charlie Ergen is an excellent entrepreneur; but a shockingly bad corporation owner. I witnessed large (and very expensive) meetings where we were told how important it was to keep our shirts tucked in at work. If you don't arrive by 8:30 am every day, you will be reported to your manager. Bizarre. Strangely though, they seem to have no problem in you working way past your 8 hour day, for no extra compensation. Finger prints are needed to enter the building... You work in 'warehouse' like conditions - there are no cubicle walls, and so there is no privacy. (Try concentrating in that type of environment.) Health insurance is almost non existant - they have it, but it covers so little; prescription costs remain very high even when you've finally paid off the very large deductible.

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.