DISH reviews

2.8

31% would recommend to a friend

(7,807 total reviews)
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Charlie Ergen

24% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

DISH has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,807 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The DISH employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Telecomunicaciones industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
Sep 24, 2010
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Pros

Job is not difficult. Pay is pretty good. 4-day work weeks good. Co-workers are fun.

Cons

Benefits suck! Middle and Upper Management haven't got a clue about what technicians do. Management couldn't care less because you're just a number and easy to replace. No appreciation for experienced and good employees. Mandatory OT - Very inconvenient Most are there because right now it's hard to find anything else. Thus, management treats you like dirt and uses threat management to keep you in line. Morale is very low

2.0
Sep 20, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

It all depends on the team that you end up with. You'll have much more responsibilities than you should have with absolutely no training. this is great if you are a quick learning and if you have a good manager, you'll have an overall good experience. However this is pretty rare as all of the good people end up leaving pretty quickly.

Cons

Employee morale is awful- making it very likely that you'll hate DISH Network within a few months of working there. No one likes the CEO and everyone spends the whole time complaining about upper management. Compensations, bonuses, promotions are rare and they all depends on how much pull your manager has... Most of the time they don't have any. No perk- really...none... No training

2.0
Sep 19, 2010
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Pros

Moderate PDO (10 days) for new employees. 5 paid sick days, better than nothing Free TV (basic 120 channel plus HD and local)

Cons

Capped maximum PDO (15 days) no matter how long you work at Dish Requires employees to work 0.5 hours extra per day to offset lunch time since 2009. This was done to have a 6% pay-cut for everyone to increase company's profit. IT department requires its employees to come to work half an hour earlier than everyone else since 2009. This was done to punish everyone for a few people who were late and the management didn't do their job. It makes the management looks good at the sacrifices of employee's personal time schedules and moral. IT department requires lots of unpaid over time on weekends and no differential pay for working over time, in order to hit deadlines, mainly due to extreme incompetence of management. For example, the software design and requirement is always changing and not finalized until about 5 days (sometimes even less) before the targeted release date, and yet, TQA must begin 20 days before the release date, that leaves a negative 15 days for development and internal testing, and then complaint to the employees about the low quality of software and the number of defects open going into the release. Pay raises never match the normal inflation rate. The longer someone works here, the less his/her salary level matches with the same positions at other companies. This creates a perverted incentive for people with experiences and knowledge to leave the company.

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