A Lot of Discipline and No Respect - Program Manager EchoStar Employee Review

This company has a fear-based culture that enstills a lack of trust among its workers. The founder is the chairman, and everything still routes through him. He has eyes on everything, including payment approvals and promotions. They will say the company culture has certain values, but in reality the main value is "discipline." We must be in the office, and your time is tracked. However, it is made sure this is not put in writing. Time in the office equates to productivity only. We all guess that 40 hours is what is expected. But people have speculated is that it's actually 42 1/2 hours per week that they prefer. You have to be in office by 9 and I was told they want you here til 4 at the earliest. Again, I am not certain. Otherwise you fear for your longevity here. We have to guess because it's not in writing. Changes trickle down swiftly through management instead. I've even heard online college experience gets deprioritized. Loyalty goes only one way as well. I have seen people be walked out for putting in a two weeks notice. Benefits are also minimal and not competitive. You get minimal PTO and have to resort to using it instead of having flexible leadership. Managing-up is quite difficult because whatever the founder says goes down the chain. It's a very stubborn culture from the top. The general workforce here is not seen as mature from the top. They monitor quite a bit of activity here and changes are swift and sudden. There are dashboards for leadership showing how many people buy in to Echostar products. We fear the less you have, the less you are valued. There is a complete lack of transparency by design. People complain and are in sour moods here quite often. This place has a reputation of being a hard place to work for a reason.