Great company, not so great management. - Information Security Analyst Discover Employee Review

3.0
25 Sept 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits including 25 days of PTO from Day 1 Good work/Life balance (depends on your manager) Remote work options (home, down town office) Flexible hours Fitness center Food court style dining Good employee wellness program

Cons

Favoritism - managers promote employees based on who is liked, not who is best qualified for the job. When posting for a new position within the company I discovered that the company will pay an external candidate more than an existing employee who changes jobs. Collaborative work space configuration can be noisy. Company is deploying a work space initiative where employees will not have assigned seating. You find a space on a long table of individual work spaces, plug in and work. No privacy, nothing to call your own. Low pay - not market based therefore not competitive (I left to do the same job and increased my salary to what the market is paying).

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5.0
8 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

It was a great work-life balance company.

Cons

After the acquisition, everything changed; the company became toxic by Capital One

4.0
9 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

- Work life balance - Benefits

Cons

Internally things are disorganized as Discover integrates into Capital One systems and processes.

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