Pluspunten
Fantastic, collaborative mid-management level teams and below. Evolving organization with aggressive goals. Heavy investment in technological advancements. Motivated and creative employees from entry level to mid-management, but VP/SVP/EVP levels cause concern.
Minpunten
Poor chemistry between VP/SVP/EVP leadership, causing issues aligning their visions. Volatile environment with high turnover at executive level and a lack of consideration or empathy for their subordinates' work/life balance. Daily "urgent priorities" handed down from leadership, frequently expecting resolution by end of day without consideration of other high priority items for the business. People with children or families could find their personal life impacted. All employees are required to swipe their badge in before 9 am (after 8:59 am is considered a late arrival and cause for termination). Expect to see a heard of employees running into the office from the parking lot around 8:55 am every day. Work hours are tracked down to the second with executives disciplining numerous employees for arriving a couple minutes after 9 am, even when unforeseen circumstances were the cause. Most employees work longer than 8-hour average work days, but executives largely ignore that commitment and focus tunnel vision on 9 am arrivals. Waves of layoffs across business units seem to keep coming...
Pluspunten
Great and flexible work supported my growth through college
Minpunten
Honestly that the product we were selling wasn't the best value
Pluspunten
Good middle management and compensation. Lots of opportunities to learn from plenty of smart people.
Minpunten
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.