DISH reviews

2.7

31% would recommend to a friend

(7,815 total reviews)
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Charlie Ergen

22% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

DISH has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 7,815 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The DISH employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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2.0
Dec 7, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

- co-workers were very friendly and outgoing - interns were treated respectfully by upper management (not necessarily by your manager though) - intern program work was meaningful, all of us had individual projects that had significant impact on the company - great for the work experience, but would not work there full-time

Cons

- barely any diversity - lack of corporate social responsibility, no recycling, no corporate wide community service - company is very stingy, the offices are cheap and ugly. I never had office supplies and had to hoard them from other people. There wasn't a community office supply cabinet. - managers and employees stretched too thin, I never saw my manager while working as an intern, which is frustrating because I could never ask him questions. - terrible communication between groups, lots of duplicate projects and resources being wasted - low rewards for hard work, pay is LOW - for being an IT intern, business technology lacked behind industry standard. We were still using MS Office 2003 and finally installed an internal search engine when I was there - business was ran poorly by upper management, you can tell the company grew too fast and it still feels like management tries to run it like a small company, but very unorganized

1.0
Dec 2, 2009

Glad I found a real job

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some really great and talented people work there until they can find another job, excluding management. Management does not realize the extent of the talent that they have.

Cons

They treat people like they are dirt. I've been working for over 40 years and have never been treated that bad anyplace. I finally quit when I realized that I had it better when in was Vietnam.

2.0
Nov 18, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

The best reason to work at Dish is you get to work with some truly exceptional individuals at the ground level. Natural problem solvers with common sense. Great people are installing dish service.

Cons

Once you get above GM at an office no one uses any common sense. They're all afraid for their jobs because the VP of the division is a jackass who has no experience with the field side of the business, unless you consider a couple ride alongs experience. Failure to comply with useless directives gets you fired. Can you say MICROMANAGEMENT? Decisions that should be left to field managers is addressed by upper management, and poorly, and it ends up handicapping the guy with a wrench. Rather than let field techs develop and become actual professionals they'd rather limit people to basics, thus limiting their skill set. Venture outside the proscribed method and get written up, whether or not it's an improvement. Feed back is encouraged, as long as it agrees with the company line. No dissent will be tolerated, any question they don't want to answer leads to attacking the person with the question.

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