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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8K reviews
3.0
Feb 17, 2010

positing at DISH Network

Anonymous employee
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Pros

it's a big company so you get to see how things are run and managed on a timely manner with all those employees and management

Cons

you get assigned one job and don't get to learn different things that you would learn at a small company

1.0
Feb 17, 2010

Listen to the people in the trenches

Anonymous employee
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Pros

4 on 3 off work week, the people down at the local level you work with, every day a different situation, not stuck in one local area.

Cons

Extremely poor pay, poor health benefits, no chance to go to school or improve your self as a work day last 10 to 12 hours, only a one product company, constant threats of loosing your job (actual and veiled), you are not a good employee if you don't get DISH it doesn't matter if you have no line of sight, or the association you live in won't allow the installs, or you can't afford the service,yes they give you the 120 package for free but kill you on receiver fees,dvr fees, phone hookup fees so you still shell out 25 to 30 bucks a month. Customer service really is poor, they give techs a hard time over the phone costing the tech any where from 30 to 60 minutes longer on a job.CS would rather setup everything as a trouble call and let the techs get hit for not meeting meaningless "numbers" which goes against their chances for promotion and raises meaningless numbers such as not meeting a 40% connection goal to a phone line or INTERNET when the majority of homes use cell phones and distrust BIG BUSINESS knocking on their modem connection, not giving upfront cost etc. Giving customers hard time on the phones, not listening to customers, stupid upgrade fees for receivers, when customer have problems with reception of VOD or PPV won't give credits . For a communication company they can't communicate in a timely manner not on products, not on promotions, way to many receivers, if Charlie wants to save money cut the receivers to two, if the customer doesn't want a second TV hook up don't hook it up the customer can watch one channel and record another and in the future the tech or customer can run the second line, DISH engineering idea strip out dual tuner and cap the tv2 ports, strip out the high def section of another receiver and use it as a single tuner, but if the TV doesn't have RCA inputs it's useless.

1.0
Feb 15, 2010
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Pros

Could be interesting and challenging - opportunity to learn a lot

Cons

Most everything - no respect for employees; will try to get away with as much as possible, and give very minumum to keep employees. When economy improves, the company will bleed employees. The rapid changes, chaos and confusion gets tiring and wears on you.

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