Pros
DISH is really good at hiring good talent fresh out of school because many young people want to move to Colorado and are willing to accept the low pay just to move out to this state. So it is possible you will get to work with really great and smart people, at first (because they’ll quit in a year)
Kontras
Where to even begin - horrible pay. I mean 30K underpaid base salary for highly technical or skilled roles at a minimum -horrible benefits. The healthcare options are so limited and expensive. The 401K match basically means nothing unless you stay at the company for 5 years (which I wouldn’t recommend). -NO flexibility. If your department has some ability to work from home, like marketing where we got 4 days per month, you will be afraid to use it for fear of it holding you back from “opportunities”. Not to mention you live with the constant fear that senior executives will take the ability to work from home away completely. So even if your direct manager allows you a -little- more flexibility you are afraid that tomorrow the senior leadership will wake up and decide to take it all away. -they would rather you risk your life driving in unsafe road conditions than work from home. Seriously. - people will tell you this is a great place to start your career because of “opportunity” but in reality you will learn terrible practices and have basically no training or onboarding. This will hurt your career in the long run because you won’t be getting the valuable mentorship from seasoned and talented professionals that you could get from more reputable companies. - it’s impossible to respect any of the senior leaders because they treat their employees with such little respect. Think 1980s toxic corporate culture where senior leaders curse and yell at people as they are presenting -if the numbers don’t show what senior leaders want to see, you will be either directly or indirectly encouraged to “run the numbers again” because they “don’t look right” therefore encouraging analysts to put forth numbers that are incorrect but will please senior leaders. - if you are a woman don’t work her. Seriously just don’t. There are so few women in leadership it’s embarrassing and it’s a direct result of the fact DISH offers NO paid maternity leave. - because managers receive VERY little training and practically NO DEI training, they tend to be very influenced by unconscious bias. Many of them try their best but simply don’t know how to effectively manage.
