Topics regarding layoffs at Discover Financial Services

Topics regarding layoffs at Discover Financial Services

Charge off increases accelerate

"In its Q4 earnings call slides, the company expects its full-year net charge-off rate to rise to 3.5%-3.9% compared with its 1.82% rate reported for... — read more 

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Charge off increases

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3917579-discover-financial-credit-card-metrics-weaken-in-november-loans-ris

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"Discover concludes student loan probe"

Nothing to see here... https://www.highereddive.com/news/discover-concludes-student-loan-probe/636722/

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Can't say you didn't see it coming...

Anyone seeing more delinquencies? https://seekingalpha.com/news/3889743-credit-card-delinquency-risk-study

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Discover Student Loans

"Student loans without the stress or fees." Hilarious...

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Let's Pretend We Didn't See It Coming?

Is this another case of "let's pretend we didn't see it coming"? I took a look at the P/E graphs and it certainly looks like we are headed into dangerous territory--along with reduced resources and climate chaos. But it's hard figuring out how to... — read more 

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Education benefits

How many people are using the education benefits?

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Voluntary packages??

Any word on voluntary packages if hq employees can’t (or don’t) want to return to Riverwoods? Clear Rog is going to require most everyone back for at least two or three days a week.

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Shameful behavior

I don’t know why I didn’t catch this until several hours after the announcement, but when I realized this had nothing to do with covid19 or the economy (as Roger’s email made clear) and was just part of Amir’s reorganization I was p-ss-d. Same... — read more 

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Should I Volunteer for Layoffs?

Kind of an odd question but would appreciate some insight: Is this a good opportunity to volunteer for a layoff even if I do not meet the requirements for the early retirement program that was sent out today? I was already considering leaving to... — read more 

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| 2061 views | | 3 replies (last September 28, 2020)
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2020 BT 5% Layoffs Q4 + Q1 2021

Just got an email from Roger announcing a 5% reduction in both employees and contractors in Business Technology at Discover. Felt like this has been a long shot coming. Not a fan of Amir as soon as he joined my mental health, and work life balance... — read more 

Discover 10% raises?

Heard Discover announced 10% raise across multiple business areas at HQ. Wondering if this is true or someone blowing smoke?

Upcoming cuts

Layoffs will continue through 2020, Discover is experiencing industry burnout, no new innovations, leadership is weak, areas of business that are not profitable, Diner's club diluted brand, network issues, to name a few. They will continue to stagger... — read more 

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Discover BT Layoffs

Word is a number of people within the Riverwoods BT organization have been let go today.

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Discover is experiencing industry burnout

Yes, layoffs will continue through 2019, Discover is experiencing industry burnout, no new innovations, leadership is weak, areas of business that are not profitable, Diner's club diluted brand, network issues, to name a few. They will continue to... — read more 

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October 2018 Ebiz and Aquisition layoffs

Verified-Both E Business and Acquisition departments experienced laying off of 33 people total on October 9th 2018 due to job being eliminated. This represents sweeping layoff throughout 2018 for Discover Financial Company, starting with INCITE... — read more 

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2018 Recent Layoffs

To my knowledge (and since I just got exited Thursday), there have been three rounds of layoffs so far this year. 1) ~50 BT Contractors were let go 2) Around 20 in the Marketing Products and the Innovations team were let go two months ago (canned two... — read more 

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Discover Financial layoffs to be announced next week

Watch for a cost-cutting initiative yo be announced in the 3Q earnings call on Tues 10/24... Found this is an old thread, but it was posted yesterday. Does anybody know more about this? We've been expecting an announcement on layoffs for a while now... — read more 

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The best place I ever worked for

Discover has a ton of issues but overall it's by far the best place I ever worked for. I've been working in the Financial Service industry for almost 30 years now. Good luck to all, there are no layoffs that I am aware off (this is as of October... — read more 

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2015 Layoffs at Discover

I heard that we might be having a reorg and job cuts / RIFs in Q2 of 2015 - is this something reliable?

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IT and Layoffs

IT is always targeted due to high compensation. This is not specific to Discover, all companies always target IT as IT is a large cost center

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