Pros
1) They pay. 2) There's always job openings (because others are leaving at an astonishing rate). 3) It's an interesting industry.
Cons
1) They don't care. It doesn't matter who "they" is, or where you work, or what your title is. To DISH, you are a policy follower. The degree to which you follow policies, no matter how mindnumbing or timewasting, the better. 2) Morale is terrible. Look at DISH's rankings as compared to similar workplaces. The company is known as the worst employer in the Denver metro area. 3) Hiring is arbitrary. In order for someone to get hired, they need the approval of not just the immediate hiring manager, but also the director, VP, and CIO. They need to pass not only a drug test and a compatibility test, but also several intelligent tests. They need to wait for many weeks for all this to shake out, and then they need to be willing to accept the moderate pay, horrible benefits, and terrible reputation of the company. As a result, the company is chronically understaffed. 4) Firings are typical. When I was hired, I was told with pride that DISH had never had a layoff in its corporate history. What I was not told is that we have regular mass firings, punctuated by intermittant departmental purges that cull the staff. Indeed, management is required to have a stack ranking of all departmental employees, and this is used to eliminate folks for a wide variety of reasons (e.g., personality conflicts, high salaries, poorly executed releases, etc.). No one - I repeat, no one - feels safe at DISH.
