Ok company to get started - Retention Representative DISH Employee Review

3.0
9 Nov 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The pay is good. Use to be better before compensation changed. Great sick policy (ppt). Approved instantly. Can be hard to use pto during busy season. Dish gives away a lot of freebies and has competitions often.

Cons

Micromanagement can be a pain but my site has a lot of great managers. If you get 15 tiers you’re fired which is understandable if the system they use wasn’t crashing all the time. Most of our tiers now are system issues but we have no way of proving that most times. We have to use the honor system and trust that managers will notate the accounts when we apply credits. (Have to have manager permission) but we can’t pull the acct back up or save customer info. So if your manager forgets, you get a tier 2. High turnover rate. You’ll see agents, managers and site managers getting fired all the time. Head of h.r. just resigned and now the c.e.o. Is stepping down. Not a good sign. The stock is plummeting. Long queue for callers. Constantly losing local channels. Only older people have dish and they only want locals. The last few quarterly earnings have been lower than the goal. The company was slowly dying now it’s quickly dying. If you apply. Apply for retention. It’s the last line of defense for dish. If your number are good you’ll last. But it’s hard when customer service angers long term customers off by offered $5 discounts and saying that’s all they can do. Customers sign a contract with someone else then call back and cancel. Also deceased calls count against you. If have 8 in one day and my numbers were low. You can’t save an account if someone is dead. Start with this company to get experience then leave.

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5.0
26 Feb 2026
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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
4mo
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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CEO approval
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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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