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Discovery, Inc. reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(1,553 total reviews)
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David M. Zaslav

69% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Discovery, Inc. has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,553 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Discovery, Inc. employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Sep 3, 2015

Sales Assistant

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Pros

All of the sales assistants are more or less right out of college and great people. Discovery works hard to hire good-quality people and it shows.

Cons

Recent grads looking to do something creative within the advertising world--this is not the job for you. You are merely coordinating slots in which commercials air in a very antiquated and confusing computer program--nothing else to the job. The job is unfulfilling and quite stressful if you are not a computer/math-minded person. Depending on your clients and networks on which you work, your hours can be unruly. But it's the luck of the draw. I found many sales assistants did not necessarily like what they were doing, but were merely "sticking it out" until they felt they had been at the company for a substantial amount of time, or something better came along.

3.0
Aug 20, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

This global media conglomerate is pretty innovative and treats people very fairly on an institutional level. Many long term happy and productive people.

Cons

Considering the light fair of their content and it's impact on humanity, particularly compared to say curing cancer or putting man in space, is there any possible justification of the completely outrageous gap between this companies average salary and the massive salary of it's CEO? Also there is a cancer of rogue political manipulators, yes men, morons and evildoers at the middle management VP level, (an unnecessarily huge cast of thousands) that get annual passes to torture, layoff, reorganize and job eliminate the plebes in ruthless abandon and to no productive purpose but their own pointless selfish ambitions. The Agency is the home to a disproportionate nest of these villains.

3.0
Apr 13, 2015

lack of career path for employees, below market rate pay

Anonymous employee
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Pros

1. Coworkers are nice. Most of them are young, in their 20s or early 30s, energetic and fun, lots of them are friends outside work. This was what I enjoyed the most when I worked there. 2. Work life balance is good by SF standard. 3. Relatively easy parking. The company is in the Dogpatch, you can actually drive to work and find free parking for the whole day. In SF, this is crazy.

Cons

1. Salary is not competitive at all and the company seems to have no interest in retaining talents. 2. The company does not have a plan of developing employees. They just gonna replace you with some other young kids.

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