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Digital Reception Services Reviews

2.8

41% would recommend to a friend

(111 total reviews)

John J Yodzis

52% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Digital Reception Services has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 111 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Digital Reception Services employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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111 reviews
1.0
31 Aug 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

No not at all. Well maybe the VP of human resources seems to care more about online comments than employee moral.

Cons

Why is the world would yall cheapos dump verizon and switch to the worst network in Florida.oh I know because you want the tech to always have no signal so they have longer times at jobs.... that's one thing we are thinking about this. This is a joke. You all are a joke. ABM is a joke. He is the best puppet for y'all though. Congrats on that

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Digital Reception Services Response
10y
I do appreciate your input but find your posting a little hard to follow. What I do hear is that you didn't like the switch we made from Verizon to Sprint wireless service. Before we made the switch we tested the Sprint service in many of our more remote areas for about 4 weeks. The service wasn't perfect and had dead zones just as the Verizon service did; though not necessarily in the same areas. Our test did not show any real reduction in service throughout the state of Florida that we service and there were some strong benefits to make the switch. Sprint really wanted our business and was willing to upgrade all of our technician's company-provided smartphones to the Galaxy S5 at no cost to our technicians. The sound quality of the Sprint call was much clearer than Verizon. As before, we provide all our technicians with a 2GB data plan at no cost. I don't understand your point about us wanting to keep techs on a job longer. This would not benefit the company financially or make our technicians want to keep working for us if we did this intentionally. I'm not recommending this but I believe you can access all the websites we use to dispatch work orders and obtain customer signatures from a personal phone that you pay for. If you have Verizon service (or another service you pay for) on your personal phone you can use that instead of the smartphone we provide to you at no cost. We really believe that providing our technicians with Vans, fuel, tools, installation supplies, training, smartphones etc. at no cost is the right way to go about our business but if you feel the phone service is preventing you from being successful then you can try using your personal phone to see if that works.
1.0
17 Dec 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good money (to start) take home vehicle phone gas card all that materialistic garbage.

Cons

Ridiculous methods and procedures, condescending management, follow your IJA or else cut throat policies, get on your knees or you you get nowhere atmosphere.

2.0
29 May 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

DRS brought me in with no prior experience and provided me with (paid) training and all equipment (Vehicle, Gas card, Phone, Tools) I needed to begin a career as a Field Satellite Technician. Everybody from the training facility I attended, to the corporate office, down to my local office was very friendly, supportive and patient throughout my training period and the duration of my employment.

Cons

-You have to sell product to make a decent paycheck, it was 10$/work order for new techs, 15$/work order for techs who have been employed for <1 year and I was told that at the end of this year it will be raised to 20$ per work order to meet your SHS (smart home services) metric, you HAVE to meet this goal to get payout for any of your other metrics. In other words, if you don't sell the required amount of product, the pay will not be worth the time you put in (they did not emphasize the importance of sales during training, nor did they provide any real sales training). -Work was slow for a couple months prior to me leaving the company and I was only scheduled 4 days per week, sometimes cut down to 3 days if there wasn't enough jobs to go around on any given day. -Lastly, you are at the mercy of the customer, They have far too much influence on your potential pay. If they don't listen when you educate them on their system and call dish for help, it's a troublecall against you (one of your payout metcis). You can do a great job on their install and do everything properly and still get all 1's (out of 9) on your 'Customer Satisfaction' survey (one of your payout metrics). They also dictate how long a job takes, difficult customers can make a 1 hour job take 4 hours which affects your 'Points per Hour' (one of your payout metrics). Not to mention you depend on them to buy product to meet your 'Smart Home Services' (one of your payout metrics).

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