EchoStar reviews

The environment is toxic. There is a bully-victim culture. The different teams do not work well together, and there is open antagonism between different teams. Managers are openly insubordinate to senior managers and badmouth other teams. That can make it difficult to interface with other departments. There are very limited opportunities for professional growth. Most of the long time employees have found their niche and have no incentive to train new people. As a new engineer your responsibilities will be mostly technical writing and administrative tasks. There is a feeling that if too much effort is put in to training new people, they will leave the company to get another job sooner. There is a strong emphasis on "the way we've always done things". EchoStar does not want to invest the time in keeping their processes up to date. There is a lot of employee turnover. The salaries tend to be on the low end of the industry. Be proactive. Be on time, and start meetings on time. Maintain an organized work area. Learn to offer people constructive, timely feedback. An internet personality test that says you're introverted is not a valid excuse to fail to communicate with your employees. Make it happen. Create one set of standards, clearly communicate them to your teams, and apply them across the board to everybody. If a subject matter expert can't articulate the steps in their processes, it's a problem. They need to build those skills or work with someone who can do those things for them. If a process is inefficient, it should be reevaluated and streamlined.

For the area of the country I work (SF Bay Area), and considering the size of the company, the benefits package simply isn't competitive. Very poor health insurance plan, lower than average 401k matching and stock purchase program, etc. I don't think I've ever heard the word "raise" uttered by any of my co-workers. Vacation/sick time is average.