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4.0

69% would recommend to a friend

(5,171 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 5,171 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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5.0
Jun 2, 2015

Discover's Pros and Cons

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Pros

The organization has some of the best benefits regarding healthcare, 401K, and paid time off. Another pro is that the majority of the leadership understand work/life balance and attempt to be flexible when it comes to that balance.

Cons

The headquarters location is in the suburbs of Chicago, so a commuter could spend 60-120 minutes traveling each way to and from work; however, they have recently opened up a remote office in downtown Chicago and business areas are trying to provide more flexibility for working remotely on a consistent basis.

1.0
Jan 23, 2015
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Pros

The benefits are good but get more expensive with les coverage each year, I found. The campus is quite nice.

Cons

I worked under 8 different managers during my 14 years at the company and over half of them had no clue how to manage employees effectively. The hierarchical nature of the company undermined their stated desire that they value their employees. HR is there simply to protect the company from their employees, not to assist actual employees. Before the economic downturn, employees had some nice perks. When the company started doing better than before the downturn, the management never brought back any of the perks, including the holiday party which morphed from a really nice catered event to a cafeteria lunch. As an administrative assistant, I previously was given a small bonus at the end of the year with all other employees. They took that away also. At one point they had some suit stage a bunch of meetings with the admin staff to find out what would create a better environment for the admins which we all were very excited about and it turned to nothing. They took none of the information we gave them into account. Hugely disappointing and we all felt like we were not an important part of the company at all. It's a weird kind of big brother feeling there to me where employees are encouraged to report on other employees. You see some employees really cheering on the corporate "mission" and they reminded me of Stepford employees, robot-like in their support of company "values" which have nothing to do with being human beings.

2.0
Oct 17, 2014

mixed reaction

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Pros

Good vacation time of 25 days, work life balance in control for half the year Seen a lot of people being here for decades also. not too much pressure to fix production issues as they linger around for around 3 months also. Good place for interns

Cons

Very old tools, processes. I bet you will get a job outside with these credentials. Top management is having absolutely no long term view. They just think for a month nothing more than that. Old timers(those who are here for one or two decades) will make others life miserable. These people neither do any work nor will let anybody do any other work. Almost 95% of these old timers cannot get a job outside. They are frustrated with their compensation and skill sets but they know very well that they won't even get 50% of this salary outside. They are very negative personalities. Boot licking of the managers is very much a norm out here. You will be very much surprised that company doesn't have any integrity or honesty with their shareholders, customers and employees. Whatever they offer the employees on offer letter - you actual work could be two or three level down after joining.

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