Pros
Free TV. Good place to start a career if you just graduated college. The University Relations program is pretty strong.
Cons
Leadership at multiple levels keep claiming we're an employee-centric company but don't have any idea what that means. Every benefit and employee policy has some catch to it that puts the burden on the employee rather than the company. A few years ago, they began an employee engagement survey, and after getting the results, many leaders claimed big, exciting changes were coming. A month or two later, our health benefits got significantly worse. Then after acknowledging that our benefits were pathetic, without any changes to them, there was a new campaign to sell how great our benefits package really was. Now, if you mention something to imply Dish isn't employee-centric, they say '"but we did that survey" or something equally lacking in action. Dish is in denial that there's any problem. Leadership expects blind loyalty and pride in the company without returning either to their employees. If you listen to the top brass on television talk about Dish's perennial placement in the "worst places to work", they say "we have a strong culture, and only high achievers will succeed here." In our department, we're nearing 40% turnover, many of whom were top performers. On top of that, most of our recent promotions seem like cases of favoritism rather than merit based. It all leads me to believe Dish is in denial about the problems it has, is unwilling to try to do anything to make it a better place to work, and really doesn't care about losing talent.