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
Jun 19, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The only pro about working there is you can say "hey at least I have a job".

Cons

So most these reviews so mandatory over time. You make on national average $15 so I dont see how you can survive on forty hours a week with that. I took all the OVT I could get and yes it sucked sometimes but it wasn't that frequent. Be prepared, they only care about sales. You sign up to be a technician but they can care less whether you spent six hours at one job long as you sold something. Don't sell that day or two days in a row expect a phone call. They will harass the hell out of you about that. The monthly quota when I started in 2013 was $150 a month and went to $700 a month! Some months I did good, sometimes I didn't. Not my fault people didn't want to buy. I brought our merchandise in every job. On my days off I would get several phone calls until I answered to talk about my lack of sales. One of the worse things about Dish is the metric systems for technicians. Every time a vast majority of techs hit goals and get bonuses they will change the metric system the next quarter, so yea, they can change it 4 times a year. The metrics simply are not fair. Customers order the Hopper and they dont have internet you are penalized. Someone missing a TV at the install and you TAGGED the account, still goes against you. They say they will reevaluate , but they don't. Customer tells you to put it on the roof and calls up three days later says he didn't tell you do that, guess what. They get a whole new roof. You are allowed a damage claim fund which is about $4000 a year. Small house, new shingles will eat about half of that. Leave a rut in the yard because there is snow and they didn't clear the driveway, thats about $1000. The absolutely worse part about working there is you work in any and all conditions. any where from -15 below to 115 degrees. Management will tell you to do something that might be border line legal to say OSHA's regulations, but they will not go to bat for you to save their life. The benefits are some of the worse in the country. Worthless as all hell. Just remember when you apply and shake your new supervisors hand, you are looking at the next Lex Luther.

1.0
Jun 18, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Sometimes if you make friends with the sales floor, you can take their left-over, melted, extra ice cream blizzards from DQ that they get for rewards. Also the kitchen staff was pretty snarky which was a nice relief after the rigidity and strictness of all the managers.

Cons

Negative culture. High turnover. They do not value nor appreciate their employees. If you have a good idea, like how to improve a process, you're better off keeping it to yourself- nothing will ever get changed. Very separated departments even though everything is crammed into one building. You sit in a cube farm right next to your coworkers, but get in trouble for conversing with them, or laughing. I made friends with a coworker and they immediately switched our desks -fun suckers. I was repeatedly reprimanded for sitting at my desk with my heels off of my feet. BTW - you are expected to dress business professional although you NEVER will see someone outside of the company, literally just sit on the phone all day. Half the other people in the building do the same exact thing (sit on the phone all day) and get to wear jeans and pjs and hoodies. I asked for new supplies that I used to do my job every single day, and a week later had a used notebook literally thrown onto my desk with the advice to "make it last". Management is cowardly. My job could have been done by a robot, the only thing that mattered was the numbers I hit. It did not matter what quality of people I passed on in the hiring process, only if I was able to fill the center's training classes so that managers could hit their bonuses. I had someone tell me they were "an ahole" during an interview and after I tried to reject them from the process, my boss told me to instead send them through. They will literally hire ANYONE that applies for the call centers because they are so desperate to get their petty bonuses. Poorly run company. But it doesn't matter because the jobs are so menial, anyone can do them. There are several very obvious reasons that Dish is consistently rated the number one worst company to work for.

1.0
Jun 15, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The 8-week training course was fun, hands-on and made us buy into the Dish Network brand and company environment. There are always contests among teams for different stats, and the building (called the Riverfront site) is beautiful and has tons of amenities.

Cons

The QA department is absolutely out to get you. They have a HUGE turnaround percentage and they will let quality people go for making simple mistakes. 3-Strike policy for anytime you veer from the script at ALL. The troubleshooting process is not intuitive at all, and they will make you go through 9-10 steps to fix a problem that could be solved in less than 3. I was fired for not asking a 70-year old woman to get up to unplug her receiver, when I knew that I could get her services fixed without having to have her get up.

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