DISH reviews

2.8

31% would recommend to a friend

(7,816 total reviews)
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Charlie Ergen

22% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

DISH has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 7,816 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 Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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8K reviews
2.0
Jun 26, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

You learn EVERYTHING and FAST. Your team will probably be so lean that you will do double to triple the amount of work your friends in the same field do at a different company. This is good because other employers know this about DISH and get great candidates from there to help build your career.

Cons

DO NOT STAY HERE. They truly want to improve retention, but their old school leadership philosophies make them a company that just CAN'T change

1.0
Jun 25, 2019

Terrible Place to work

Recommend
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Pros

the people I worked with were awesome but that only goes so far.

Cons

To whoever is reading this, this is where you go to die. Benefits, compensation, career advancement, work-life balance, opportunity, and anything else you can think of was non-existent at dish network. I was brought on at a fairly low pay and ran with it because I was promised growth opportunities. Every time a raise came around, I would get shafted due to he same old saying "the company is in a rough spot and we don't have budget". I had 3 managers try to hire me on their team due to my work ethic and this was a growth opportunity for me but I was blocked by my director due to my current team not having enough staff and my value to the current team. They are cutting positions left and right and letting go of their best employees. They are keeping the seat-warming employees around because they are paying them fairly low and it helps them save money that way. Charlie, the CEO, has this saying: Spend money like its your own, and that is where everything goes wrong as he takes it to seriously. With dish wireless launching end of this year (if they meet that deadline) they are cutting head count, shafting people on pay raises, and having staff work weekends to meet the deadline which is not going so well. I even had our own HR rep in my exit interview tell me that the company is in a rough spot with budget and all which is why I did not get a pay raise or a career growth opportunity, which is not a good excuse at all.If you want to work at an environment where you will be rewarded for your hard work and have a decent work\life balance, please stay away from dish as that is not their priority. 95% of the jobs here are dead end and allow no internal advancement.

3.0
Dec 17, 2017

It's (still) a Gamble

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of opportunity to work hard for less pay and benefits. Something the executive management prides itself on explaining every chance they get. Not everyone is cut out to be a DISH employee.

Cons

Travel - all out of pocket except for airfare. Expected to travel during personal hours. Up to two weeks for reimbursement. No company credit cards, low per meal allowable expense limits, mediocre hotels. 4 or more traveling together - be prepared to share a room with someone. Insurance - $5k out of pocket before benefits kick in, then 30% until max OOP Hours micromanaged via "badge report", even for salaried employees. Performance review results are massaged by executive management, with minimal correlation to actual job performance or salary adjustments. HR shrugs and says "That's the way it is."

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