
EchoStar Communications employee surveys are collected by Vault editors, Vault Gold Surveys provide detailed information on careers and hiring at specific employers.

Customer Service, Littleton, CO (November 18, 2007)



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Employee Workplace: DO NOT WORK FOR ECHOSTAR! Do not waste your time. Unrealistic
expectations. Hostile work environ... READ MORE

Interview & Recruiting: Hiring process is a continual 'cattle call', due to employee turnover.
Red flags to observe about Ec... READ MORE

Salary & Compensation: Starting Salary:$11.00 hr.
After 4 years: $16.64
Since employee turnover is so high, you will never ... READ MORE

Business Outlook: The market is becoming saturated.
Retaining customers is becoming a problem.
Home forclosures, and ... READ MORE

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Broadcast Operations Technician III, Cheyenne, WY (November 6, 2007)



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Employee Workplace: This is a bad place to work. They treat their employees horribly. Pay
and benefits are far below ... READ MORE

Interview & Recruiting: If it could be screwed up they screwed it up. I even interviewed less
than 24 hours after they cont... READ MORE

Salary & Compensation: $32,000 a year. 15 years in TV, 7 in DBS and that's all I'm worth to
them. There was a $250 bonus t... READ MORE

Business Outlook: The company's doing great. They don't pay there employees anything and
are making money hand over f... READ MORE

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Technical Support Representative, Christiansburg, VA (October 19, 2007)



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Employee Workplace: Corporate culture - The management philosophy follows a top-down model
in which a centralized corpo... READ MORE

Interview & Recruiting: The hiring process consisted of a IT competency evaluation, an
interview, and an evaluated training... READ MORE

Salary & Compensation: Wage: starts at $9 per hour with 5-20% performance incentives and 2 8%
raises for promotions along ... READ MORE

Business Outlook: Echostar, parent company of Dish Network satellite television service,
has held claim to being the ... READ MORE

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MDU Installation Manager, Dallas, TX (October 7, 2007)



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Interview & Recruiting: Echostar - don't waste your time! I have 10 years of experience in the
satellite industry and have... READ MORE

Salary & Compensation: Echostar way underperforms the market. Compensation is not very
negotiable and embarrassingly low.... READ MORE

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Broadcast Operations Technician III, Cheyenne, WY (September 3, 2007)



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Employee Workplace: A fairly good work environment. Master Control is very relaxed as far
as a dress code goes.
Positi... READ MORE

Interview & Recruiting: The interview itself was performed in a somewhat professional manner,
though it was done very quickl... READ MORE

Salary & Compensation: Numbers are embarrassing for someone who's worked in this industry as
long as I have. I made about... READ MORE

Business Outlook: The company is growing. They pay their employees nothing. They're
making money. They will probabl... READ MORE

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Coordinator, Englewood, CO (July 31, 2007)



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Employee Workplace: EchoStar doesn't promote employees based on skills or talent, or even
team leadership- just how muc... READ MORE

Salary & Compensation: Current salaries are under market for nearly all positions within
EchoStar. READ MORE

Business Outlook: Two words - Big Brother. You can bust your a** and no one will ever
notice, but walk in at 9:01 an... READ MORE

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