Pros
There is great opportunity to grow or change your career here. You see and hear of many examples of call center agents working their way up to become execs, or someone with no marketing background switching from a different department and changing their career. DISH expects a lot from you, but the experience you get in return is super valuable. The employees are DISH are pretty great too, and became the main reason I stayed for a while.
Cons
There are some awful, toxic people in HR... specifically on the leadership team. When you have the nickname "The Mean Girls Club" for several of the Sr. Managers, Directors, and VP within the group, you know something is wrong. They don't actually care for the employees, and only about their personal careers and how they appear to the presidents and chairman. They gossip about employees, spread rumors about HR employees that stand up to or disagree with them, and are stuck in an echo chamber of their incestual friend group. Anyone looking to join the HR team at DISH, PROCEED WITH CAUTION. Many of the HR Managers and Supervisors are great people, but it's that next tier you have to worry about.... and they are the ones who decide your pay and performance scores. While I like the CHRO, he seems to have thrown in the towel and given up on trying to make positive changes. DISH also does not value ethnic and gender diversity as a company, and that comes specifically from the chairman. They use the guise of "diversity of thought" for their hiring ideologies, but just by looking at the executive slate, prioritize white men. There are also several departments that are dominated by white men, and also have a toxic leadership team: Customer Retention and In Home Services. COVID-19 cases have also been running rampant through multiple of the DISH locations, yet leadership still felt the need for employees to still be in the office, despite the employees being able to prove that they are just as successful as a remote workforce. The idea of having work-from-home employees is such a sinful concept to Charlie and Erik, and it left an incredibly poor taste in the mouth of most employees.
