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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1.0
Mar 4, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Due to the turnover you will get the chance to work on projects that exceed your current title. You will get experience you would no place else. You will also learn a great deal of what not to do to. Many of your peers will be great people, but you will come to question their and your sanity for working there.

Cons

You will not be trusted as an employee. They worry more about how many hours you are there, what time you showed up and how long you took for lunch than what your work product is. If you work here don't come late and don't take more than 30 minutes for lunch. Other items to know: You will be required to work long hours due to poor planning and not on anything truly productive You will be required to give up your personal life You will get paid below market- in many cases far below It will take months to get through the interview process and that is fast You will take tests to get hired and none will predict your ability to perform You will spend a great deal of time working hard on projects that go no place and with no purpose or application to current needs Your review will be based more on a bell curve distribution than performance. Even if you are a top performer you will get a lower rating if management feels there are three performers but your team is assigned to give out only two A + ratings. Rest assured their friends will get the top rankings. You could also get an F because every team has to give a few of those out too. Someone must not be performing is the senior management’s thinking.

2.0
Feb 28, 2011

Going down the hill... Non stop...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You can easily get promoted if you want and show your dedication for a long time (unfortunately your knowledge and skills often don't matter).

Cons

lack of feedback, support, you are simply a tool (easily replaceable). Comparably Salary is extremely low. Every year it becomes only worse. HR doesn't even try to show that they are here to protect and help employees, only the company (Charlie himself). Most of the management lacks ANY education (have you ever seen director with HS diploma). No Personal skills what so ever. If you are greeted in the morning, you should consider yourself lucky. If you didn't get yelled that means you did great... (doing work good or satisfactory is not even considered completing your work). Either you have to do a fantastic job (that you won't even get a thank you but won't get yelled) or you failed it. Management is not consistent with their goals and guidelines. Attrition level is over 130%. Overall moral is close to 0. People dream of being laid off.

2.0
Feb 23, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Dish has an amazing product at an amazingly low cost compared to the competition. Dish has the best technology by far, but hasn't quite figured out how to market it to the average consumer. Pros of the job is the people you work with (minus upper management).

Cons

Benefits are poor, salary is not competitive at all for what they expect of you, praises for a job well done are few and far in between, people behind the desk need to receive and actually pay attention to the people in the field. Dish is too big of a corporation to be ran like a "moms and pops" shop, they think big, expect huge results, but yet run daily operations as if they're a 10 employee company with 500 customers...huge problem. If you have a position that requires you to drive your vehicle while in the field, a gas card should be provided and your driving record outside of company time (i.e.-speeding/seatbelt tickets) should not be grounds for firing or given double points. Never quite understand why hotel rooms or car rentals have to be paid for upfront and then reimbursed, if the company is willing and able to pay for it, why not do so upfront? Raises and promotions should be based on performance alone and not who you know or how much you're willing to kiss up to them. Dish should give it's direct employees and independent retailers the tools (especially the ones that are clearly specified) that are needed to do a better job.

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