EchoStar Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"The company has great potential but needs some work."

What do you like about working at EchoStar?

"Lower level people always stay postive in the company."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"ALways ask about morale and the culture of the company."

What don't you like about working at EchoStar?

"Extremely long hours and didnt feel appreciated."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Believe in your in team ."

"People are friendly, but sometimes work politics gets in the way"

What do you like about working at EchoStar?

"People are friendly, relaxed work environment"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure you get put on a high profile project. That is the only way for your work to be seen."

What don't you like about working at EchoStar?

"Work politics. The logical, most efficient way of doing something is often overlooked in order to make others (higher ups) happy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen more."

"If you like a demanding job, this is the place for you"

What do you like about working at EchoStar?

"High pace environment"

What don't you like about working at EchoStar?

"Work balance"

"Excellent technical experience and the best team work."

"It was a great place to gain experience and the learning curve was incredible"

What do you like about working at EchoStar?

"The opportunity for advancement and the fact that we were doing something that had never been done before. Very Entrepreneurial!"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You have to be willing to work very hard - it is a great company for you to learn. Most of the good employees go on to be very successful with other companies."

What don't you like about working at EchoStar?

"The pay scale was 60% of our industry competitor."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"If you are going to pay low, keep the stock options."

What do you like about working at EchoStar?

"High Volume"

What don't you like about working at EchoStar?

"I love it"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"communication"

What do you like about working at EchoStar?

"the people"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"be very communicative"

What don't you like about working at EchoStar?

"I liked everything"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"communication"

"I enjoyed working at echostar and would work there again. A mistake to have left."

What do you like about working at EchoStar?

"Good team effort. Supportive staff. Clean enviroment."

What don't you like about working at EchoStar?

"Not much, just the standard big business routine."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would not dever to change anything from the way I remember it!"

"It was very good working for Echo Star."

What do you like about working at EchoStar?

"The environment and the experience"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Stay focused"

What don't you like about working at EchoStar?

"Not well managed"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus on the big picture"

"Great place to work and would have enjoyed continued employment there."

What do you like about working at EchoStar?

"The job at Echostar Technologies allowed me to network with other programmers and really experience a programming/engineering job."

"Limited career advancement, but you learn new things everyday."

What do you like about working at EchoStar?

"I enjoy managing and developing new business opportunities and strategies for a service provider specializing in satellite communication services for consumers, subcontractors and retailers. My department serves some of our vital internal existing and new customers. I feel great satisfaction that I do my job so well and that it makes such contribution to others departments and ultimately to the bottom line."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You must have high energy and must be willing to learn and adept to new changes and processes."

What don't you like about working at EchoStar?

"It's not that I disliked anything about my job; in fact, I really enjoyed it. If I had to say something along those lines, I guess Id just say that there were so many opportunities to provide new types of customer service through products and solutions, and I just couldnt pursue them all. Of course, I took great satisfaction in achieving and exceeding existing goals, but I sometimes wished there were more hours in a day to pursue new opportunities."

What do you like about working at EchoStar?

"schedule."

What don't you like about working at EchoStar?

"policy and procedure changed almost on a weekly basis"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"not change the procedure when they feel like it"

"Large company based on a mom & pop vision."

What do you like about working at EchoStar?

"Different situation every day."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Good company for moving up and learning to be a manager."

What don't you like about working at EchoStar?

"There is no work and life balance."

"A very misleading job you'll very likely not love."

What do you like about working at EchoStar?

"I didn't like much about working at EchoStar. It was honestly only slightly better than not having a job at all. Working there made me more motivated to find work elsewhere."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Really ask yourself if this line of work is for you. I know times are hard and not many people are hiring, but if it's at all possible to find something else you might like better or stick with longer because of actual opportunities for advancement, please keep looking."

What don't you like about working at EchoStar?

"My time at EchoStar was not a pleasant experience. From the beginning I felt like I was intentionally misled about the opportunities to excel and to make more money. At the time I was there, everyone who made it out of training class was forced to work in the Winback department, where we had to spend all day, every day, trying to win back customers who had decided to cancel their services. It made for a long, depressing workday full of argumentative confrontations and failures. We were actually instructed not to inform customers who cancelled their service that they might have a refund due! We were given no choice; we had to work in Winback. I felt resentful for being misled about how much money I could make there, and for being forced into a department I wasn't comfortable working in. When I finally did find a better paying job elsewhere, as I was finalizing my paperwork several EchoStar supervisors who I didn't even know ridiculed me and implied that I couldn't make it at a different job. I guess this was their way of trying to convince me to stay. They didn't win me back!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They should read this review, and ask the same questions of other ex-employees. If you really want to provide good customer service, which would ultimately increase your business, it seems like you would want customer service representatives who like what they do instead of being there because they were forced into convincing disgruntled customers not to cancel their service. It's way too much pressure for way too little money. A good customer service staff wouldn't have such a huge turnover. That seems pretty basic to me. Management should ultimately put the customer's needs first by examining exactly why they have such a big turnover in their customer service call centers. Solving this problem could only be better for business."

"I traveled non-stop to open new locations. Travel was up to 80%."

What do you like about working at EchoStar?

"The industry for telecommunications was great and the people I met in recruiting and in the community were fantastic!"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Interviewing is a long process. Patience is important."

What don't you like about working at EchoStar?

"The travel."