Discover reviews

4.0

69% would recommend to a friend

(5,170 total reviews)
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Michael Shepherd

66% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Discover has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 5,170 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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3.0
Jun 10, 2023

Review - mixed

Recommend
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Pros

1. 5 weeks of starting PTO and 1 personal day. 2. Extremely well run company from an overall financial perspective. This means the company isn't going out of business anytime soon. Minimal layoffs during bad economies compared to other companies (so far).

Cons

1. Once you are hired at a specific title, it is almost impossible to be promoted EVER. The outgoing CIO Amir has made significant changes such that it is virtually impossible to be promoted. Anyone who claims to have been promoted had to work crazy hours, brown nose, and go through the same interview process as with other external hires. 2. Very frequent 24/7 production support since Cognizant was able to negotiate support out of their contracts. 3. No opportunity for realistic growth due to the outgoing CIO Amir's Dreyfus model. You can lead multiple engineering teams and build cutting edge systems. No chance for promotion and management will only focus on those who speak the most in meetings. 4. Pay is tens of thousands below standard market value. Management is willing to let people leave for other companies and will not match the salary.

1.0
Apr 15, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

You get to work from home. Benefits like other big companies the usual.

Cons

At first they will tell you the normal jobs you know receiving calls helping customers. Then they will give you jobs offers at other position and they don't tell you the whole thing until you are clearly applied for what's going to be due. It's they call it senior specialist. Which this is kind of a deceiving because for customers seeing a specialist they think it's a manager position where all the other agents things that's you are one agent that handle everything. So you will get transfer from all over the apartments like fraud, security verification, dispute, delinquent account, products, web support, supervise a call, you can name it you get this transfer calls from all over the place. Now when we first sign up for it on the descriptions that they indicate it's just say you will work with two additional credit cards. Nothing mentioning that you will be at the dumpster of the company. When We complain about or let them know about it they're saying that they'll fix it. But none has been done. New agent transfer calls and let let us know that oh yeah they were told that they need to transfer any call that they don't feel comfortable or understand to you. Which they are trained to do that to just dumped and emotionally damaged you while you're working. If this is what they're telling you to quit but they don't want to fire you right then and there. Then they're making a hell of a good job doing it. So I would say discover would be the worst company to work with if you're trying to work for a good company.

2.0
Mar 5, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Healthcare benefits and 401k match I was a loyal Discover Card company fan until this mandatory in work announcement, now I won’t recommend.

Cons

Rigid in-office expectations post-pandemic, despite record-breaking successful years of mostly-remote workforce (mandatory 3 days/week onsite, though workforce was promised flexibility) Limits on employee mobility if hired and working outside 50-mile radius of Chicago or Houston offices Poor development of promoted managers, leading to ineffective management style and bad employee development Old white guy corporate mentality Out of touch with progressive workplace models No child care, no free perks like food, bad public transit options, basically lost touch with workers needs

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