Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Discover as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Full Stack Developer and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Full Stack Developer and roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Discover takes an average of 60 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Full Stack Developer had the quickest hiring process (on average 60 days), whereas Full Stack Developer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 60 days).
I applied online. I interviewed at Discover (Chicago, IL) in Jan 2021
Interview
Apply through website. Contact by recruiter. Remote meeting with Recruiter.
Job posting was all over the place, but failed to communicate that they were looking for an embedded reliability engineer.
I finally teased this information out of the recruiter. The skillsets they were advertising for were more aligned with a Java software developer than a cloud infrastructure engineer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you have experience supporting large Java based web-apps?
Farnborough, Hampshire, South East England, England
Accepted offer
Positive experience
Easy interview
Application
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Discover (Farnborough, Hampshire, South East England, England) in Dec 2019
Interview
Face to face interview on soft skills, prior experience and typical interview coding challenge. Not terribly technical, more interested in getting the right type of personality. Tech stack was made clear beforehand so technical questions were not unexpected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe your greatest achievement at a previous place of work.
First a phone interview and then a in person interview. Everyone was every welcoming. Simple questions like why do you want to work here and gave out Scenarios like tell me a time where you dealt with a difficult customer