Pros
Opportunities to learn There are some good employees They started letting us eat lunch outside last year!
Cons
- very bad benefits: there is no paid parental leave, the medical coverage is weak (with only one plan option), everything is at your expense except for short term disability (which is new this year), not a lot of PTO for new employees, and WFH was not widely allowed until COVID. -low pay: everyone I know that has left has easily jumped $10-15k. -no respect for employees: the biggest example of this is that everyone was working from home during COVID. The day that the state allowed people back to the office, Dish started bringing people back. Many people had no say and were forced in despite being very uncomfortable. Leadership continues to put out messages that the reason is for collaboration, even though collaboration was happening remotely and people aren’t allowed to collaborate in person in the office anyway. They keep pushing a message that everyone is super happy to be back, which is absolutely not the case. People don’t want to risk their lives just because Dish decided that butts need to be in seats. It is all about hitting that 50% quota, not making sure people feel safe. -leadership micromanages: directors and above constantly ask for reports on what everybody is doing and say it’s for prioritization purposes, rather than just trust managers to make the right decisions here. They track your time in office with a badge report. They want you to hit 42.5 hours in office. I’ve heard about people that have been told to take pto rather than badge in late on snow days, and many aren’t allowed to just work from home even though their positions are very capable of being done from home. -no respect for PEOPLE: layoffs happened yesterday with absolutely no warning. People felt ambushed by the news and then leadership tried to sweep it under the rug rather than own that it happened. No reasons were given as to why or how the people selected were selected. It just got blamed on COVID even though the message all along has been that we aren’t doing that bad. People got locked out of their computers without warning before even getting to say goodbye to anyone. It was not handled with dignity whatsoever.
