Does Discover pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Discover employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.8 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Discover. This rating has improved by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Discover?

68% of Discover employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Discover 4.1 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.1 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Discover?

Account Manager (298) , Customer Service Representative (204) , Project Manager (149) , Senior Manager (119) , Manager (96) , Collections Specialist (95) , Senior Account Manager (94) , Team Leader (78) , Senior Associate (71) , Account Specialist (59) , Director (50) , Fraud Specialist (50) , Software Engineer (47) , Lead Data Science Analyst (41) , Applications Engineer (39)

What are the pros of working at Discover according to real employee reviews?

"Great benefits and 401k." ((in 725 reviews)); "Great culture and values!" ((in 426 reviews)); "work life balance is good" ((in 415 reviews)); "The people I work with are great; I have never had a problem with a co" ((in 335 reviews)); "The pay is good for those who are willing to work hard and earn it." ((in 271 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Discover according to real employee reviews?

"Low salary and difficult to get promotion" ((in 96 reviews)); "Senior leadership lacks vision; dirty political environment;" ((in 61 reviews)); "Unfortunately, the reorganization caused a lot of unhappiness from poor upper management placement and decisions" ((in 48 reviews)); "Blatant favoritism and a total disregard for workplace civility are traits that are often on display by management." ((in 44 reviews)); "High Expectations with no room for error and low compensation" ((in 26 reviews))

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Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Discover layoffs and their outlook for job security at Discover in 2026.

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Discover reviews

4.0

68% would recommend to a friend

(5,174 total reviews)

Michael Shepherd

65% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.3

Diversity & inclusion

4.1

Culture & values

4.1

Work/Life balance

3.8

Compensation and benefits

3.6

Career opportunities

3.5

Senior management

Discover has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 5,174 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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Reviews by job title

5K reviews

5.0

Jun 23, 2017

It is a great time to be working at Discover

Manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits, PTOs, insurance, summer hours, etc. Also have many Employee Resources Groups to get to know people outside of your team. Company encourages internal transfers to keep top talent. Beautiful campus with many good amenities. At high level, our management provides very transparent and good directions for our goals and initiatives.

Cons

Too many chiefs and not enough Indians. We are growing fast, so I sometime feel like there are so much going on where everything is high priority, but have not enough resources to complete quality work.

2.0

Jun 22, 2017

Grew too fast, big and messy

Manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

friendly people all wanting to do excellent work, decent if a bit average pay

Cons

too big to manage, highly matrixed so the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. Lack of processes and standards meant teams didn't know what they were doing either. Seems like they were successful for so long they didn't need to be deliberate and efficient in their internal processes but growth is forcing the issue. Impossible to have a positive impact even when you have solutions as there are too many "cooks in the kitchen" stepping over each other. Management is "friendly" but not genuinely supportive.

2.0

Jan 25, 2016

Discover Personal Loans

Senior loan underwriter

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Excellent benefits. Work at home opportunity. Fantastic cafeteria with healthy options. Stable company. Evaluations yearly with pay increase. Incentives. Gym on site.

Cons

Quality. Stress. Unreasonable expectations. Closed door management. Coaches and Team Leaders with little knowledge. Length of time with company means nothing anymore. Turn over rate is HIGH. Training is not that great anymore.

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