DISH Software Developer reviews

4.2

64% would recommend to a friend

(80 total reviews)
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Charlie Ergen

100% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated DISH with 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 80 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have an excellent working experience there. DISH is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Telecomunicaciones industry (3.6 stars).

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80 reviews
1.0
Feb 10, 2022

Bad pay, worse culture.

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Pros

Not much. All you need to know is their motto is "the best benefit is the opportunity". They sincerely say that at Dish.... Some managers/team leads are okay, but once you get up to the VP level it gets toxic fast.

Cons

They under pay everyone. Significantly. They gave a pay raise to a lot of employees that amounted to nearly 20% last year and even with that raise, their salaries were still 3 years behind the industry averages. And they acted like it was huge favor to pay you a little more, but still well below average. Which brings us to culture. The culture here is horrible. Strict work hours. Time tracking and hassling you if you're arriving a second past 9. Your manager will call you into the office like you're a child asking for an explanation. Dish loves to infantalize its employees. Especially about..... WFH/remote work. The chairman of the company, in a ATM meeting, referred to those employees that wish to have WFH options as "sociopaths". Now, Dish is plagued with attrition (wonder why?) and all teams are at least a few people short. Don't worry. That won't stop them from asking you if you could do additional work and maybe even ask you to support another team or two or several additional projects. The benefits suck. Medical and dental are really bad. The PTO is a joke. You don't get normal holidays like MLK day off. And if they do give you a Christmas Eve off they will remind you they're doing you a huge favor. The company sucks. Outdated tech, banking on 5g to save them.

1.0
Aug 14, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Lower level management cares, or pretend to care?

Cons

Teamworks. They track every second. Being late is the greatest sin you could ever commit, according to Charlie. Late one minute? Forget about ever getting promoted. It's so ridiculous that employees call in if they are running late. Salary? 30-40% under industry average. Yearly adjustments are a joke.

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