Discover Card Reviews

Pros

DFS is so far the best company I worked for. Great training program and encourages internal transfer

Cons

Some people is comfortable of just do my day attitude.
Mid management can be overworked with all the corporate stuff

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up

Pros

Make your own schedule and are allowed to make schedule changes weekly.

Cons

Upper management showed favoritism and collections environment there is cut throat.

Pros

Casual environment with typical IT staff. Some business casual dressing, mostly for finance. Great cafeteria, lots of paid time off, decent starting wage for the area. Some positions able to "work from home" after employment. Internship program brings great potential to the teams.

Cons

Chicagoland starting wage a little lower than normal. If working up a corporate ladder is your game, this is not the place for you. Bureaucratic politics kept to a minimum. Not a highly structure environment, which some may prefer.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire better marketing teams. Discover Card still seen as the "who takes this" card among youth who will be applying for the card in upcoming decade. Make a video that's able to go viral. Any publicity is good publicity.

Pros

Pay is awesome plus you earn incentive. Management actually care about you and want to better you professionally. Cafeteria and arcade in the building. Nurse is also there for you for free.

Cons

One person gets sick and the whole company is sick. If you don't call out exactly 24-48 hours in advance you get penalized and written up. Does not matter if you have a doctor's note or you are literally throwing up at your desk, it will count against you so keep your immune system healthy.

Advice to Senior Management

Change your policy with attendance. If you really want people to stay with your company and enjoy working then allow them to stay home or stay in the hospital when they are sick and not fear losing their job because of it!

Pros

Best Benefits in Utah very close to home Discover helps me with my days off work and adjust to my work schedule great pay

Cons

Not very easy to promote within the company need to be more competive with pay thru out the state

Advice to Senior Management

Reconize your long time workers

Pros

Nice office environment.
Decent work life balance.
Dedicated employees.

Cons

Pay still lags industry norms.
As with any company, weak management within parts of the company.
Downsizing work force.

Pros

benefits, location close to my house, easy work, not to hard at all....extensive training program, onsite gym, nice building....lots of time off, options to move around....flexible with time off

Cons

pay is terrible, schedules are limited, saturday work, outdated hardware, strcutured enviornment, bonuses are almost nonexistant, feel very underemployed.....seems to be a cheap company

Advice to Senior Management

offer more to employees to step up and raise the bar, dont buy treats give raises...more direct feedback...something?

Pros

Everyone should work here before getting a credit card.

Cons

The job gets boring and monotonous

Pros

Great paid time off. Clean building. Great Tuition Reimbursement. I have a lot of lifetime friends.

Cons

You are held to a standard that is impossible to reach. Stat driven department that drives manipulation and hostility.

Advice to Senior Management

I think all of management should understand the loans prior to being put into a managerial position. I think the immediate Team Leaders try their hardest, but are lacking the basic skills to manage. Senior Management needs the most feedback, they should get to know their employees. It is sad that upper management only cares about stats and bottom line #'s. I think they took everyone experienced in Collections and Sales with Competition at the top of their Strengths and threw them in management. There is not a balance. Be engaged with each Underwriter and find out something about them as individuals. Management would never read this anyway.

Pros

Competitive compensation and benefits. Good people and fairly fun atmosphere. Decent first job for youngsters.

Cons

Results driven micromanagement at its finest

Advice to Senior Management

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