- Salary did not keep pace with inflation, much less grow with experience.
- Upper management is completely out of touch and clearly doesn't care about rank and file employees. The CEO once gave a speech about how he didn't need car keys anymore because his phone controlled everything (implying he owned a Tesla or something similarly or more expensive). This was a few weeks after everyone found out that CoL raises were around 1% that year and merit raises were on hold. The CEO made around 8 million dollars that year.
- Middle management was ineffective, overly busy, and burnt out. You are likely to have a different project manager and line manager, meaning you have to do quarterly reviews with someone you don't even work with. I was cut off and talked over by middle management. I got called into a meeting on Christmas Eve that could have been an email or waited a few days.
- I was switched to a different role that I had zero interest in with no consultation or notice. I was just sent a message one morning informing me that I was now in a different role on a different team. I then had several weeks of not having anything assigned to me because the 3 different managers involved did not communicate with each other.
- I would waste between 1 and 2 hours every day in meetings that should have taken 15 minutes.
- Morale was extremely low.
- The pace of work was slow due to inefficiency and low morale.
- Management harassed employees for months about signing up for a cell phone provider owned by Hughes's parent company. The cell phone provider then ran ads about how they were the only company to grow in subscribers during that quarter.
- My promotion was delayed for months and *coincidentally* went through a few days after I signed up for the previously mentioned cell service (after it was hinted that I might be fired if I didn't). Even after I got the promotion, it took another month for my pay raise to go take effect. The combined promotion, merit, and cost of living adjustment raise was 3%.
- The bathrooms were disgusting. More than once I found feces on the floor. People frequently walked straight out of the bathroom stalls and left without washing their hands. Many of the people who did stop at the sink would not use soap. One of the sinks on my floor was broken for over two and a half years and was never fixed.
- Financially, both Hughes and their parent company are in a very bad place. If you get profit sharing at all, it will be in the form of company stock in your retirement account, which will then likely lose value.
