Discover reviews

4.0

69% would recommend to a friend

(5,169 total reviews)
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Michael Shepherd

65% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Discover has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 5,169 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Discover employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Sep 11, 2017

Welcome to high school!

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Pros

Some great people and nice facilities. Volunteerism is taken seriously in helping underprivileged areas and charities in need. Too bad they don't treat their own people this well!

Cons

Very cliquey just like in high school. If you like to gossip and gang up on people, you'll fit right in. 90% of directors and above earned their title by back-stabbing their peers and thinking only about themselves. And they expect their staff to kiss up to them...or else! If you are ethical and have good character, go elsewhere!!!

3.0
Sep 25, 2016
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Pros

Great benefits including 25 days of PTO from Day 1 Good work/Life balance (depends on your manager) Remote work options (home, down town office) Flexible hours Fitness center Food court style dining Good employee wellness program

Cons

Favoritism - managers promote employees based on who is liked, not who is best qualified for the job. When posting for a new position within the company I discovered that the company will pay an external candidate more than an existing employee who changes jobs. Collaborative work space configuration can be noisy. Company is deploying a work space initiative where employees will not have assigned seating. You find a space on a long table of individual work spaces, plug in and work. No privacy, nothing to call your own. Low pay - not market based therefore not competitive (I left to do the same job and increased my salary to what the market is paying).

1.0
Apr 21, 2016
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Pros

The only good thing i had here was the work life balance, as my team didnt have much work but despite of that they want you to sit like a robot from 9 am to 5 pm and leaving even half hour early when you have nothing to do gets you a 1 on 1 the next morning.

Cons

This will be a long list! 1) Extremely low pay and year end bonus package. 2) Doesnt take care of its employees but spends all their money on themselves, such as spending millions of dollars on renovation, award ceremonies decoration, new buildings, basement pingpong/game center and please that wii and arcade games was a ridiculous idea! 3) Lots of favoritism by managers. 4) Lots of managers/team lead with outdated militaristic ways of management from 19th century, where the management dictates your every move down to the letter. If they say you sit you sit, if they say stand you stand, you dont do anything your way. 5) No freedom of speech, or just for anything! 6) Its a shame to call this place a tech oriented company as even to install one of the basic software, you have to take permission which can take days. 7) Lots of bad co workers with professional jealousy, watching your every move, and bad mouthing each other, rather than working together as a team. 8) Bad managers for tech lead, who have not a zero bit idea from the tech perspective of what is going on. 9) Some managers treat you like their children, they monitor what you say, what time you come in, what time you leave, how much time you browse the net, whether you bring a notepad to a meeting, questions you ask in the meeting. 10) Outdated technology in tech teams. 11) Full of office politics where no department agrees with other departments. 12) Horrible culture! 13) Difficulty finding parking most of the time. 14) Way too much unnecessary security on campus and on our pc's. 15) You are required to take lots of online classes all the time for "learning" which doesnt even relate 1% to your job.

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