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29%
19%
5%
5%
3.9
Average Rating
(based on 21 Discovery Communications Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
4.0
Growth Opportunities
3.4
People You Work With
4.3
Person You Work For
4.0
Rewards You Receive
3.7
Support You Get
3.8
Way You Work
4.0
Work Setting
4.0
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Discovery Communications Employee

"Great company to work for! Many good opportunities to grow. They make it very hard to leave with amazing benefits and great pay. They are also very accommodating and flexible allowing many employees to work remotely."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Associate Production Manager

"Working for Discovery was great!"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5

Company-Industry Rating Comparison

3.9
Discovery Communications (25)

4.3 Highest Rated in this Industry is MTV Networks (52)
2.5 Lowest Rated in this Industry is EarthCam (7)
3.8 Average of All Companies in this Industry (1,417)
Discovery Communications Employee

"Discovery is a good but hard place to work, everything is constantly moving and changing which can make it quite overwhelming and hard to stand out."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Technical Support Analyst

"Discovery is a company that is innovating by moving from a linear broadcast model to a tech company. It recently acquired many assets and is launching many new mobile app platforms."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Discovery Communications Employee

"fast-paced and dynamic setting in the shifting sands of consumer video consumption. Aggregating an audience for video has never been more complex or required a more fragmented approach by management."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Discovery Communications Employee

"Great company to work for. Gave a chance to grow and be creative. Worked on a wide variety of shows that had enormous growth potential."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Discovery Communications Employee

"I've worked at Discovery Communications for over a year and a half now. Great work/life balance, employee environment and an amazing place to grow your career."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Application Developer

"Less then average compensation. Very poor management - lots of politics. Good benefits - vacation, 401K, stock discounts, and others."

Person You Work For 2 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Discovery Communications Employee

"I've been working for Discovery for 2 years now. It's a good place to work."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Director of Data Architecture

"Discovery Education and Discovery is a fast paced environment. We are one of the first companies to launch totally electronic digital text books. We are in over 60% of the schools in the US helping students and teachers excel."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
VP of Global IT Services

"I've worked for Discovery for 10 years and they strive to create a creative culture offering internal networking opportunities and self direction."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Financial Analyst

"This company is only as good as the manager you work for. In my case, I had the tremendous misfortune of working for a deceitful, underhanded, passive-aggressive, condescending pseudo-intellectual who did not have any desire to manage but to control. Do Not temp for this company!!"

Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 2 / 5 Work Setting 1 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 1 / 5
Discovery Communications Employee

"Discovery Communications was my last position, but I had left due to the poor work environment and low morale."

Person You Work For 2.7 / 5 People You Work With 2.7 / 5 Work Setting 2.7 / 5
Support You Get 2.7 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2.7 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2.7 / 5
Company Culture 2.7 / 5 Way You Work 2.7 / 5
Senior Developer

What do you like about working at Discovery Communications?

"Discovery communication is media company, Implementing latest technologies, innovative ideas to grow in their media"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"This comapny professional company, need to interact more with other teams"

What don't you like about working at Discovery Communications?

"Professional environment, friendly, co operative and fun to work in the company"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"My suggestion to the management is need more collabaration between the teams"

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
HR Assistant

What do you like about working at Discovery Communications?

"fun employee engagement and creative surroundings, there is a positive response from everyone who finds out you work at Discovery"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be ready to leave the company in order to move up when you come back, if you want to come back."

What don't you like about working at Discovery Communications?

"It's too corporate and too large. There is a lot of turnover and not the work/life balance that they feel they provide for their employees."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Better work/life balance, more employee engagement, higher compensation. More vacation days, better benefits, better perks, and better technology."

Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5

Discovery Communications Reviews FAQs

Is Discovery Communications a good company to work for?

Discovery Communications has an overall rating of 3.9 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 21 Discovery Communications Review Ratings left anonymously by Discovery Communications employees, which is equal to the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 90% of employees would recommend working at Discovery Communications.

Does Discovery Communications pay their employees well?

Discovery Communications employees earn $70,500 annually on average, or $34 per hour, which is 7% higher than the national salary average of $66,000 per year. 13 Discovery Communications employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find Discovery Communications Salaries by Job Title.

How satisfied are employees working at Discovery Communications?

90% of employees would recommend working at Discovery Communications with the overall rating of 3.9 out of 5. Employees also rated Discovery Communications 4.0 out of 5 for Company Culture, 3.7 for Rewards You Receive, 3.4 for Growth Opportunities and 3.8 for support you get.

What is the highest paying job at Discovery Communications?

According to our data, the highest paying job at Discovery Communications is a SVP at $310,000 annually. Browse Discovery Communications Salaries by Job Profile.

What is the lowest paying job at Discovery Communications?

According to our data, the lowest paying job at Discovery Communications is a Sales Associate at $16,000 annually. Browse Discovery Communications Salaries by Job Profile.

What are the pros and cons of working at Discovery Communications?

According to reviews on CareerBliss, employees commonly rated the pros of working at Discovery Communications to be Company Culture, Growth Opportunities, People You Work With and Person You Work For, and no cons.

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