Discover Employee Reviews about "work life balance"
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Reviews about "work life balance"
Return to all Reviews- 4.0Feb 2, 2014ConsultantCurrent Employee, more than 10 yearsRiverwoods, IL
Pros
The people focused environment, completion of business vision, co-workers and work life balance are among some of the top reasons I choose to stay with DFS.
Cons
IT agility too slow, IT leadership needs to bring in young blood, glean their ideas and energy while using the established talent to channel efforts towards the business goals.
3 - 5.0Sep 10, 2021Senior ModelerCurrent Employee, more than 1 yearRiverwoods, IL
Pros
- Good compensation - Great PTO policy (25 days) - High tech finance company - Very rich culture
Cons
- Work life balance can be challenging but manageable - Not remote friendly (although they offer remote working after pandemic but your manager can ask for in office work)
- 5.0Sep 21, 2017Customer Service & EngagementFormer Employee, more than 1 yearWest Valley City, UT
Pros
Great benefits from day one, great training to prepare you for the jobs and duties to come. Discover financial services really cares, not just about the customers but also about the employees. They really try to help create the work life balance for each and every employee. I was able to work for Discover Financial service twice. Both experiences were great for me. They have a wide verity of shifts at the location in West Valley UT.
Cons
The people you talk to on the phone can be difficult at times, some of the Discover financial services location can get full pretty fast, especially during the day time hours.
- 5.0Oct 12, 2022Senior Risk ManagerCurrent Employee
Pros
great work and life balance
Cons
low package overall especially todays
- 3.0Mar 12, 2016Anonymous EmployeeCurrent Employee, more than 1 yearChicago, IL
Pros
somewhat collaborative and relatively good work/life balance
Cons
passive aggressive, slow to change, insecure company
- 4.0Aug 23, 2022Human Resources ConsultantCurrent Employee, more than 3 yearsRiverwoods, IL
Pros
Pleased with transition to hybrid and ability to work with managers to manage work/life balance and flexibility.
Cons
Consistency across managers for supporting hybrid work envionment
- 4.0Mar 10, 2022Account ManagerCurrent Employee, less than 1 yearNew Castle, DE
Pros
Raise twice a year Paid training PTO 401K Vision, dental and health insurance
Cons
Management Is always watching what your doing If you don’t want a cold calling job don’t sign up Discover says you’ll have work/life balance but they really care more about you coming to work
- 3.0Dec 14, 2021Anonymous EmployeeCurrent Employee
Pros
Great company culture; lots of activities and learning opportunities;
Cons
No life and work balance; chaos management;
- 2.0Apr 29, 2021Account SpecialistCurrent Employee
Pros
They started working on having set schedules for employees which I loved because I have more of a work life balance. Theirs a lot of involvement opportunities so you can be heard as an emoloyeee With covid they aren’t forcing us to go into office
Cons
They have the lowest starting pay for banking. Customer service You get burned out really fast because of the turn around from people leaving so the call volume has been so high They don’t have in place anything for outages that won’t penalize you and they take it out of your PTO
1 - 2.0Sep 20, 2017Customer Service RepresentativeCurrent Employee, less than 1 yearNew Castle, DE
Pros
Easy to make connections with coworkers. Also like that they have small weekly mini events for us in the summer. They also have a generous PTO system
Cons
Work life balance (over a month since I've had 2 consecutive days to myself) They will lie to you during the recruiting process. The pay is ATROCIOUS compared to other companies in the same field They've realized their shortcomings as far as employee retention...their solution? Inform new hires that the 'grass isn't always greener on the other side' (Money is green though)
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