Do not be fooled, recent graduates. The company is currently removing loyal employees to replace them with new graduates that do not know any better. Your degree will have taught you concepts around Agile and DevOps. Know that you will not find those here. While DISH has a two-week sprint, the company is otherwise entirely Waterfall. Agile trainers were either let go, found better opportunity, or have never been replaced. The CTO claims that DevOps is the future, but there has never been any DevOps training. They are just words to the company and the company will always find a way to not spend money. This includes forcing you to use free versions of software that requires businesses to purchase for use. DO NOT work here.
If you are looking for a job that will respect you, this is not that job. If you are looking for a job that will work with you to foster ambition, this is not that job.
For the entire length of my career at DISH, my boss was incredible at gaslighting me every step of the way. I was promised many things and most of these things were never delivered. Each year was another year of finding a way to get rid of me. Another year to belittle and break me. It worked, too, and I found myself a broken husk of the person who once entered the doors. I was sick every single weekday before coming into work and I was sick every single night just thinking about going back. I hated it here. Everyone hates it here.
If you need accommodations of any kind, know that DISH is well known for going out of their way to deny you those rights. Anyone that got beyond a denial found themselves in limbo as DISH made every effort to never accept or deny them. Many of my coworkers did eventually have to submit accommodations requests because the job was killing them mentally. While they waited, they still had to figure out how to behave as if they did not need the accommodations. I have heard from many of my nurse friends that DISH has a reputation for harassing them and the doctors they work for. I do not doubt them based on the experiences my coworkers have told me.
Bad manager behavior is ignored quite regularly as managers belittle and bully those under them. There is a survey that used to regularly come out to ask the employees how they felt about the company, but once they realized we all really, really hate it, they stopped sending them out. They did release one recently. The results tanked fairly heavily across the board.
One thing they use to bully their employees is the "DISH Way", a company buzzword that means "good little worker bee". The company does not actually care if you follow the DISH way, they care if you brown-nose hard enough that the stain is seen to all in the company.
The founder Charlie Ergen said that anyone who works from home is a potential serial killer. He is also well known for his many statements saying that women cannot be managers, a statement he has made multiple times in public to his employees. The CEO Eric has also made some very odd, very off-colour comments in his weekly video series. It is not an isolated belief.
These are all things that you must accept because you are forced to sign an arbitration clause in order to work there. Arbitration means that you waive your right to a trial by jury. In DISH's case, you also waive your right to a trial in general and must discuss any legalities behind closed doors with DISH directly. This naturally will work in their favor. To work here means to sign away your rights and because of this, they can get away with things they should not be getting away with.
Currently, many employees have banded together to find new jobs. Many of the people here enjoy working with one another and many people are able to find new jobs that keep them with one or two of their fellow employees with a manager and company that actually cares about fostering the company they move to. There is a mass exodus from DISH with a turnover rate higher than many front-end customer service positions. It used to be that another company was the highlight of "do not work there". Now, recruiters are telling me they cannot get anyone to work for DISH because the reputation is so bad. No one wants to work for a company that underpays 20k from industry standard and watches your time like a hawk.
If none of that makes you turn away, then consider if you arrive *at* 9:00AM three times, you are fired. The day starts at 9:00AM. They fire you for being on time and managers spend more time paying attention to your Teamworks badge-ins than they do whatever job they are supposed to be doing anymore. None of the managers are helpful or knowledgeable. They are quite literally useless.
All this to say, do not work at DISH.
