Vantaggi
The feeling you get when you leave is amazing.
Svantaggi
Ask anyone, especially IT recruiters, and they will confirm that unless you get into the perfect situation at Echostar, it will be a soul crushing, highly unprofessional experience. Its no wonder that employee retention is their top goal/objective each year. Middle management is absolutely brutal. They listen to respond, accuse and condemn, not to understand. They do a great job of covering their butts, that's about it. There are no defined career paths. As several recruiters warned me (and I stupidly ignored), there are three types of people that work at EchoStar - those that last three days (because the environment/culture is SO BAD), those that last three months (hoping the environment/culture will change but realize it never will), and those that are there for over three years (because they learn to assimilate, think the technology is cool, and enjoy the benefits of being a beta tester so they get every channel including pay-per-view). Good riddance.