Discover reviews

4.0

68% would recommend to a friend

(5,174 total reviews)
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Michael Shepherd

65% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

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 Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Apr 26, 2023

Mentally Exhausting

Recommend
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Pros

WFH, 401K, healthcare, PTO, usual benefits to be expected from a billion dollar company like this

Cons

If you have any human feelings whatsoever, taking customer service calls gets soul crushing very quickly. They'll tell you you'll be able to promote out of it within 6 months but you can only promote to other call center positions. There are 4 huge waves of training that add more responsibilities to your job but your pay stays the same ($17). Not many managers seem to know what they're doing or what it's like to be on the phones at all. You won't be able to change your schedule and will be stuck with insanely busy weekend shifts. There is rarely more than 3 seconds between calls for your entire shift. If you don't want to feel like a workhorse, pass on this job.

2.0
Mar 7, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The pay has been decent and solid benefits. I have worked well with the people I have met here and grew as a developer.

Cons

They have recently made a mandatory decision to make Chicago and Houston employees within a large area be forced back into the office 3 days per week. This decision was encouraged by the CIO, who hypocritically informed the company he would no longer be able to work for the company in the future due to his own circumstances preventing him to work on-site.

1.0
Oct 13, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Working from home is the only pro I can think of

Cons

Deceitful recruiting practices - the recruiter's are not upfront about the Personal Banker position which is very deceitful. If you are a licensed MLO, you will not perform the duties that you would working for a mortgage company, this job is nothing but an entry level customer service position. Be prepared to be micromanaged from the first day of training. They over micromanage. 5 or people or Team Leaders will reach out to you about the same thing within minutes of each other either there is no communication or it's part of their micromanaging. It's almost abusive. The trainers, team leaders, coaches, all use passive aggressive, gaslighting tactics when their crappy out of date system does work as it normally and frequently does not. It's almost mental torture so if you chose to work here you need to be mentally strong for their tactics. The microaggressions are unreal I was told by my team leader I didn't ask enough questions and she was wondering if "I knew everything". Fact is I know way more than her about mortgages I have my National license - she's only licensed to work for a financial institution. I just thought that was a passive aggressive and rude thing for someone in management to say to someone. So now I just ask dumb questions all day long. The reason they want you to put questions in the chat is because they can track that and if you make a mistake on the same thing later they have something to throw in your face. Discover does not trust their employees at all Discover also has the nastiest consumer base I have ever had to work with. I was a debt collector for years and never once had a customer base like the Discover customers. Training was very poorly structured and lacked a lot of knowledge. They don't have a specific trainer or trainers to train but they use team coaches which none of their information would never match. Very poor I was excited to start working here but that quickly went away after day 1 of training. I hate it here!!! This job literally makes me sick in the mornings when I log in daily.

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