Discovery Holdings
Sandton,
South Africa
https://www.discovery.co.za
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Discovery Holdings is a global thought leader and a proudly South African company. They are passionate about innovating and leveraging their assets and scale to ignite meaningful change that adds value to their society and stakeholders. The company provides innovative and unique services and assurance products. These services and products integrate with their trend-setting wellness programme, Vitality. With a strong and growing presence in the South African market, Discovery Holdings’ international footprint is also expanding rapidly. The company has a core purpose: making people healthier and enhancing and protecting their lives; this informs everything they undertake as an organisation. When making decisions, Discovery Holdings is strongly guided by their values, which also contributes to their overall energy and culture. Their pursuit of excellence pervades their products, services and people. The company specialises in Health, Life and short term insurance; Investment; Using the science of behavioural economics to drive positive change in society.
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"Smoke and Mirrors"
Added 16 Jun 2015 by a current employee
I worked at Discovery for over 7 years. From the outside, they seem like a hip/viby company that even looks like fun to work for etc. This is all smoke and mirrors unfortunately, the only value that they hold in high esteem is making money, which is fine but they don't pay you properly, expect you to work very hard and then constantly want you to do public PR and branding excercises to make the corporation look good etc. When it's adrian gore's birthday, a camera crew come along and your managers literally tell you to stop working and go and sing happy birthday in the auditorium for him. I was very disspointed as lots of people ask what it was like but from my experience and from my colleagues that i spoke to. This is not a place that fits its image at all. Employees are just a number here and the red tape and conservative atmosphere reminded me of boarding school.
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"A lesson learned "
Added 19 Nov 2013 by a current employee
Never in my life have I wanted to leave a company within the first two weeks after joining. Considering the first week were spent in induction, I doubt this would a "typical" experience, but I was recruited after 5 telephonic, 2 video conferences, complete psychometric and an IQ test ... to take over a programme management function. I was direct and very blunt about what I wanted to do in my career and I expected a position to provide - Stimulation and enough work to keep me busy. Despite my years of experience, my role was reduced to a purely admin role, something I simply began to loathe with every day spent at Discovery. The management structure meant you're truly isolated and left with no means of escalating an issue. The onsite counsellor who I sought out, to find someone to help me through the crippling boredom advised me to literally just cut my losses. It cost me a fortune to move to JHB and join the team. It was a terrible experience, a line manager with zero empathy who critisised any idea to bring some value to the project, and a programme manager who was near incapable of doing a handover and demonstrated some of the most destructive applications of criticism to anyone who didn't comply with her "my way or the highway" approach. Nice person on a personal level, but I wouldn't wish that experience on anyone. Sad, considering how much I invested in them. They profess, with almost glossy veneer, all these people based cultural values, but when push come to shove, they are Nowhere to be found when needed.
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