Petty Good - Field Service Specialist I DISH Employee Review

4.0
Apr 23, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great Training, positive o-workers and managers at this site. Extremely satiety oriented. 4 days on 3 off with one weekend day in the mix. Everything furnished except boots and keep them in good order. Techs have a camaraderie with each other, even though competitive, eveyone is willing to give advice if needed. We use a performance based pay system at our office (one of only 4 offices to do so). If you perform and have great quality you can mke good moey, but you must be willing to work hard and fast.

Cons

Some of the metrics are not fair. Customers who cancel orders assigned to a tech go against your individual metrics. Cust service agents that will assign a ticket as a service rather than the proper classification to make the customer happy (cheaper to no cost) works against positive metrics. Cust service agents that hare no filed exposure and cannot relate ACCURATE information to the customer during sales, leaves the tech to explain the details and take heat in some cases. A Cust satisfaction survey for techs that is slanted- based on 1-10 with 10 being satisfactory, 1-9 being unsatisfactory. This rating affects your pay opportunities. 1 good, 9 bad is not balanced. The other issue is this is telephone based and a 10 is key zero on the keypad. This takes a LOT of cust education as the first instinct is to enter 2 digits which would give you a rating of 1.

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Great and flexible work supported my growth through college

Cons

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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.
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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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