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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1.0
Feb 22, 2024

A nightmare I may never recover from

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Pros

I met a lot of smart, kind people at Dish. Unfortunately, none of them were in management.

Cons

Constant abuse, belittlement, burnout, and chaos. Whiplash from impulsive, inexplicable, and rushed changes in direction. Countless corporate "fake it 'til you make it" sociopaths with inflated egos and little-to-no actual knowledge or skills. Hours tracked obsessively like you're a child who needs to be babysat. Absolute delusion and doublethink at all times from senior management. The ship is clearly sinking with a madman at the helm, yet they blame subordinates who are simply doing their best to follow management's orders. At the same time, they're still preaching that they're "dIsRuPtInG iNdUsTrIeS" while everything is clearly collapsing. I still have nightmares about working here many months later. Run as fast and as far from this company as you can.

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DISH Response
2y
We’re saddened to hear about your negative experience. This type of behavior is not to be tolerated from our managers. We would like to hear more about your particular experience to prevent this from happening to current employees. Please reach out to peopleoperations@dish.com to discuss further. Thank you for this feedback.
2.0
Jan 12, 2024

Dying Company For a Reason

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Pros

- Opportunity - Learn a lot - Competitive environment (may be a con for you) - They're always hiring

Cons

- Below-average pay - Anti-remote work - Very political culture - Annual reviews impacted by # hours worked - Really poor leadership - Very cheap with investing, unless it's a Charlie Ergen project - Bad IT department - Divisions undermine each other - 2nd out of 2 satellite TV companies, which is a dying industry - They're fighting off bankruptcy

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DISH Response
2y
Thank you for your candid review. We're sorry to hear about your experience with the leadership team. Our executive leaders work hard to represent the DISH Way and lead by example. We're saddened to hear that was not your experience. We’re constantly working to improve, and feedback like this is critical to our growth. That all to say, with our new CEO, Hamid Akhavan, we’re excited for our future and continued innovation building a new kind of athlete in global telecom.
1.0
Sep 21, 2021
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Pros

Charlie Ergen, in an employee wide call, once described the awful benefits package as “at least you won’t go bankrupt” and that’s how I’d describe the only pro of this company - it’s better than being homeless.

Cons

Interview Process - Four months long, interview with nine people, take four IQ tests, and Charlie has to approve your resume and offer at the very end. I’ve had offers from three other F100 companies that all took about two weeks with no IQ tests. Written offers were cut due to “covid” and verbal offers were cut at the final review but Charlie brought home $94M in 2020. He keeps using the argument for low salary and no raises as “we’re a lean start-up” as he flies around on his two private jets. Salary - You will be underpaid. Got a 55% raise doing the exact same thing at my next company. Also, raises are about 2% every year there. Tools/Training - No access to paid research, use Google suite because it’s free, no formal training or on-boarding. Charlie recommends you can use YouTube as training. Hours - 9-5 no matter what using a system with badge reports and your directors monitor every time you leave the office like jealous lovers. It snowed pretty bad one day and some people badged in at 9:01 am. Charlie scheduled a mandatory meeting from 6:30pm to 7:00pm. He made people stay two hours late just to ask them if they were confused about the core hours. Office - We we’re in the office the entire year since we we were dubbed essential employees. Masks, sitting every other cubicle while we’re on a Google call with the person next to us. They were renovating the building so there was construction everyday and when it rained we would have buckets on our desks since there were holes in the ceiling. But it was necessary to come to the office in-person for our Google meets calls…. Additionally, we have some pretty bad snowstorms in Colorado and our management recommended leaving our houses at 4am to drive in the snow in order to get to work by 9am. Management - No one knows what they’re doing, which is why they stay, because they can’t get hired anywhere else. All the competent employees who know their worth leave within a year or two and the ones that stay for that yearly 2% raise move on to be directors and department heads.

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