DISH reviews

Employees are forced to give positive ratings so the company review isn’t as bad! CEO is a puppet for Charlie and Charlie gets whatever he wants, I honestly feel bad for the guy because he probably hates his life too being a talking head rather than a real decision-maker. Rather than allowing corporate employees to be responsible adults, Charlie demands each person to be at work during core hours 9-4 not a minute late to work and not a minute early leaving. You have to take PTO if you miss even an hour for a doctor appointment. Work from home is non existent unless state mandated due to a pandemic and even then they switch back to in person the minute the shutdown is lifted regardless of employee fear of a second wave. During all team meetings Charlie calls millennials “soft” and tells everyone that dish isn’t the place for people to come if they want good benefits or to go to their kids baseball games. Corporate attrition is at least 50%. He doesn’t believe his employees can work remotely because we “need whiteboards and non verbal cues to be productive”. Benefits are an absolute joke they pay for nothing whatsoever and continue to boast that they offer competitive benefits and pay when most people decline job offers because they are so terrible. Employee engagement surveys are consistently trending down for corporate and HR yet leadership does nothing to fix the core issues of work life balance and benefits. AKA let us come in and leave when we want and give us the opportunity to work from home when our kids are sick or there is a snowstorm that shut down all of Denver rather than take PTO. The company changed benefits mid year and is decreasing PTO and tuition reimbursement for employees that accepted job offers based on the accrual rate promised. The company is shady and Charlie is the richest man in Colorado so he won’t change what works for him. Sooner or later millennials will be the largest group of workers and he will be SOL.

DISH Network is one of the worst places I have worked. The culture is very tough, management only tells you what you are doing wrong and you are required to work 42.5 hours a week. The good: benefits are fair, looks good on a resume, if you can make it 2 years you can get a job anywhere, chance to work directly with high level execs (CMO, SVPs, ect.) The bad: thrown into the fire with no training and when things go wrong you are blamed/ made to look incompetent, manager meetings every week that are anything but productive/ only telling you what you are doing wrong and not offering any advice, working 10+ hours a day with no recognition, being legitimately KICKED under the table by a manager in meeting with CMO, no severance for 3,000+ employees laid off due to COVID even though DISH boasts about their billion dollars of free cash flow All in all, I am happy DISH laid me off. I was not happy and worked my butt off with no recognition except from my peers. DISH needs to reevaluate their culture and policies to match the demands of employees in 2020. I would reconsider any offer you receive and ask hard questions during your interview.