IT Manager - IT Manager DISH Employee Review

2.0
30 Nov 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the people you work with are great. If you work hard, there can be room for growth. There is some opportunity for training.

Cons

The badge reports at corporate are a joke. Everyone feels like they are treated like children and there is no trust between employees and upper management. One minute late and you are meeting with your Director to explain why. And there is no excuse good enough for Dish for being one minute late. They have 3 strikes and you are fired rule. Late 3 times in 3 months and you are gone. No matter what your reason may be, and weather is not an exception. There is little communication between teams resulting in frequent similar projects that should have been only one. Advancement for women in IT is impossible, with blatant nepotism going on. The few women who have advanced are either incompetent or friends of someone higher up, causing resentment of everyone below them. If you do get the opportunity for a promotion, you get a flat 10% raise regardless of the position or what the median pay is for Denver, making you the lowest paid person on the team. This also causes resentment as you are then working just as hard as your co-workers for substantially less money. If someone is hired from outside at the same time as you transferred, you can guarantee they were hired for at least 20-30% higher pay than you.

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5.0
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Pros

Great and flexible work supported my growth through college

Cons

Honestly that the product we were selling wasn't the best value

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DISH Response
3mo
It is wonderful to hear that the flexibility of your role provided the support you needed to successfully navigate your growth through college. We take great pride in being a workplace that accommodates the educational pursuits of our team members, as we know how vital that balance is for long-term career development. While it is rewarding to hear about your personal success, we also appreciate your candid perspective regarding our product value and market positioning. We are constantly evaluating our competitive edge and exploring new ways to better serve both our core customers and emerging markets. Feedback like yours is essential as we strive to evolve and refine our approach to the business.
3.0
15 May 2026
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Pros

Good middle management and compensation. Lots of opportunities to learn from plenty of smart people.

Cons

Disclaimer -This is all water cooler hearsay and opinion. During the two years I was there the bill came due on being penny wise and dollar dumb over the years. A great example is Sling. Dish beat basically everyone to market but Netflix with streaming and was the first platform to offer live TV via stream (which YouTube TV still uses as a selling point). What happened? Dish paid the original engineers to build it and then balked at paying them to document and maintain it. Same deal with the cyber security team. After years of expecting security engineers to do exceptional work shorthanded for middling compensation eventually they had none. It was all put on the security manager, who had a heart attack after repeatedly requesting support. He understandably did not return. Not much later one of the core systems was ransomed, and the company fell out of the fortune 500. Despite being in the middle of dealing with the consequences of those decisions leadership was doing it all again with the mobile network build out.

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DISH Response
1mo
Hearing that you found value in our middle management and compensation, as well as the chance to learn from the talented individuals on our teams, is encouraging. We appreciate you recognizing those aspects of your time with us. On the other hand, the historical context and concerns you shared regarding executive decision-making, infrastructure maintenance, and resource allocation are deeply concerning. Maintaining a stable, secure, and well-supported environment for our workforce is of the utmost importance, and we take feedback regarding employee well-being and operational decisions seriously. We are continually working to strengthen our operations and better support our teams across all business units. Because this review references a sensitive medical situation alongside organizational challenges, we would welcome the opportunity to hear more about your perspective. Please consider reaching out to our team directly at peopleoperations@dish.com so we can learn more.
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