Pros
Charlie Ergen, in an employee wide call, once described the awful benefits package as “at least you won’t go bankrupt” and that’s how I’d describe the only pro of this company - it’s better than being homeless.
Cons
Interview Process - Four months long, interview with nine people, take four IQ tests, and Charlie has to approve your resume and offer at the very end. I’ve had offers from three other F100 companies that all took about two weeks with no IQ tests. Written offers were cut due to “covid” and verbal offers were cut at the final review but Charlie brought home $94M in 2020. He keeps using the argument for low salary and no raises as “we’re a lean start-up” as he flies around on his two private jets. Salary - You will be underpaid. Got a 55% raise doing the exact same thing at my next company. Also, raises are about 2% every year there. Tools/Training - No access to paid research, use Google suite because it’s free, no formal training or on-boarding. Charlie recommends you can use YouTube as training. Hours - 9-5 no matter what using a system with badge reports and your directors monitor every time you leave the office like jealous lovers. It snowed pretty bad one day and some people badged in at 9:01 am. Charlie scheduled a mandatory meeting from 6:30pm to 7:00pm. He made people stay two hours late just to ask them if they were confused about the core hours. Office - We we’re in the office the entire year since we we were dubbed essential employees. Masks, sitting every other cubicle while we’re on a Google call with the person next to us. They were renovating the building so there was construction everyday and when it rained we would have buckets on our desks since there were holes in the ceiling. But it was necessary to come to the office in-person for our Google meets calls…. Additionally, we have some pretty bad snowstorms in Colorado and our management recommended leaving our houses at 4am to drive in the snow in order to get to work by 9am. Management - No one knows what they’re doing, which is why they stay, because they can’t get hired anywhere else. All the competent employees who know their worth leave within a year or two and the ones that stay for that yearly 2% raise move on to be directors and department heads.
