Ok company, exhausting role - Account Specialist Discover Employee Review

3.0
5 Jan 2021
Recommend
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Pros

401k match, paid maternity leave

Cons

The job itself is extremely demanding from holidays to end of March. Especially during Covid when people are financially stressed. PTO days seem average when compared to other office jobs but compared to the stress of the job and time you will actually need off they are not enough. Everyone runs out of pto by MARCH. In January everyone is calling out sick because they have PTO for the first time in months and call volumes are extremely high. I mean like 8 hours of calls with 1-2 minutes of calls not coming in the whole shift. You do get a couple scheduled breaks but it’s not enough. Discover cares about their brand (and short wait times) at the expense of employee mental health. Meetings, digital support and anything that you look forward to get away from phones constantly gets canceled. Workforce management treats employees like they are disposable and then wonders why people call out sick and why turnover is so high. They can afford to hire more people to be fully staffed at all times and not have employee burn out but they don’t. They expect your job to be the thing you care about the most but don’t treat you the same.

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5.0
8 Jun 2026
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Pros

It was a great work-life balance company.

Cons

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5.0
28 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

One of the most significant advantages of interning at Discover is the opportunity to work with massive, high-stakes financial datasets within a highly collaborative and mentorship-driven culture. Because the company manages millions of consumer accounts, you gain direct experience in how data-driven decisions impact risk management, credit modeling, and fraud detection in real time. The environment is known for being supportive of early-career professionals, offering structured learning paths and exposure to modern cloud-native infrastructures like AWS. Furthermore, the company’s strong focus on work-life balance and a clear pipeline for converting interns to full-time roles makes it an excellent "foot in the door" for anyone looking to build a career in fintech.

Cons

On the other hand, the primary drawback often stems from the inherent bureaucracy and heavy regulation of the banking industry, which can lead to slower project lifecycles and "red tape." You may find that a significant portion of your time is spent on repetitive data cleaning and maintaining legacy reporting systems rather than building the cutting-edge predictive models you might expect. Additionally, because Discover is a massive organization, your scope of work can sometimes feel siloed, making it difficult to see the end-to-end impact of your analysis across different departments. Finally, the current landscape of the industry means that internal shifts or large-scale corporate restructuring can occasionally lead to uncertainty regarding team directions or long-term project stability.

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