Discover reviews

4.0

68% would recommend to a friend

(5,185 total reviews)
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Michael Shepherd

64% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Discover has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 5,185 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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3.0
Apr 21, 2015

Account Manager

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Pros

The pay is good and nice benefits. Very diverse company. I like how they award their employees. BUT.........

Cons

Big turnover rate! Discover Card hires a new group of people every week, because a group has left. Why? there's no consistence and management does not adhere to policy. There's a open door policy, but your business spreads like wildfire. They expect you to meet unrealistic metrics and have countless call listenings. While having meetings about how if you don't improve your job will be on the line. Career Opportunities; are open since there's in and out traffic, but prepare to get your nose dirty. All, I mean ALL!!! promotions are all pre-selected. Your performance makes up 30%, as for the 70% who's butt your kissing.

2.0
Feb 24, 2015
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Pros

Starting out you are what is called a miner, basically you are placing outbound calls trying to get in contact with the cardmembers. It is extremely easy to do and mostly you are leaving scripted messages. They give lots of treats and gift card as incentive.

Cons

The coaches have no idea how to lead. My team lead has been on LOA for 2 months with no type of replacement or help from the department manager. I have never met my department manager. Because there is no TL the coaches are trying to step up but their expectations of a team full of new employees are very high and harshly imposed. They try to put everything on you, if you don't succeed at using your coaching what should happen? I shouldn't decide my consequences. Weekend shifts are very early even for those who work evenings on the weekdays and a roll call email is sent out with a list of employees who are late or no show to the entire department. The supervisors from every team are extremely rude or selfish. You have to brag about your success in front of the whole team to get acknowledgement, you can't let the results speak for themselves. Even if you do well in most areas if you are struggling in any other you will be treated as a failure. I was told by a trainer checking in on new employees that if you can't meet expectations then you will be forced to quit. I'm not sure what that means, but I have no idea why you would say that as a person in power position.

5.0
Feb 20, 2015
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Pros

This may be group specific (I work in Finance - Treasury) but you can literally write your own ticket at Discover. Management is very responsive to ideas and letting people work on ideas and improvements they feel passionate about. The opportunities to broaden your horizons are frankly limitless and the pay is very solid. I regularly get exposure to high level employees including Head of Investor Relations, Treasurer, CFO etc. Benefits are top notch as well with a very generous base vacation package of 25 days and match on the 401K that works out to 7% on a 6% contribution (3% is contributed whether you do or not). Facilities are also top-notch and improving rapidly. There's even an offsite location in Chicago for people who don't want the city to suburban commute every day (they also cover some train commute costs and have shuttles from the building to the train station)

Cons

Staffing probably needs to be beefed up a bit in some departments but its understandable that costs need to be controlled given the cyclical nature of credit cards.

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