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  • 1,000 - 50,000 employees

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  • Entertainment, Travel & Hospitality

What it does: Produces TV programs and content for its million subscribers.

Mission: “Powering people’s passion around the globe.”

Size and presence: 11.000 employees.

Best known for: A TV cable network that airs a variety of shows about general entertainment, education, popular science, technology, adventure, food and travel, and many more.

The good bits: Big TV network with high-quality programs, full of creative people. Good benefits and is a good place to hone your skill.

The not-so-good bits: Tight deadline for the production department, as expected from a TV network. 

Discovery Inc. Story

The company was established by John Samuel Hendricks as the Cable Educational Network, in 1985, and launched Discovery Channel in the same year. Afterwards, the channel became its namesake and flagship brand. Throughout the years of its operation, Discovery had gone through numerous amount of launching, acquiring, and purchasing stock of other brands. Some noteworthy launchings were the infamous Animal Planet (1996), Discovery Kids (1996), Discovery World (1998), TLC (2010), and Asian Food Network (2018).  

The company rebranded its name from Discovery Communication (1994-2018) to Discovery Inc. when it officially acquired Scripps Network Interactive, a media company that owns Food Network and HGTV. Discovery Inc. is headquartered in New York City. The recent and the biggest update from the company is the merger between Discovery Inc. and AT&T’s WarnerMedia. Both companies agreed to merge their content and broadcasting networks in 2021, while the merging process is completed in April 2022. In the same period of time, Discovery CEO David Sazlav announced that the company reached 24 million streaming subscriptions. It now operates 19 channels in the U.S alone and operates its business in six divisions; U.S. Network, Discovery International Network, Digital, Discovery Studios, Lifestyle Studios, and Discovery Global Enterprises. 

Culture & Vibes

Working in Discovery means you must be ready for—seemingly—an impossible deadline. Undoubtedly it has a fast-paced working environment that requires you to dedicate your time and energy to work with the team. And as a cable network that sell high-quality programs for its viewers, it requires employees to be creative and remain updated about recent trends and demands. Thus, the nonstop idea generating and learning among its workforce. Interns and graduate employees will have a big opportunity to learn how to deliver and produce a high-quality program. Having a sense of responsibility to produce fair, accountable, and educating content with minimum mistakes is something you will get in Discovery. 

Recruitment Process

Discovery provides several interesting intern programs for students worldwide. However, for US Intern Program, Discovery opens for hiring during spring and summer. For Spring Program, the application goes live in September, interviews will be held in September-November and offered in October-November. While for Summer Program, the application goes live in February, interviews will be in February-April and offered in March-April. 

US Intern Program requirement: 

  • The student must be a rising junior, senior, or graduate student enrolled full-time at an accredited college/university
  • Have legal right to work in the U.S. 
  • Minimum 3.0 GPA
  • Shows proof of enrollment if shortlisted

Graduates who wish to apply for a job can find all of the opening roles information on the company’s websites. Some former and current employees stated that the recruiting process commonly takes three rounds of interviews; a phone call interview for screening, an interview with the hiring manager, and then continued with the director. Some roles required the applicant to take a skill test. And some employees said that they get an interview with Hirevue, a video-based interview that allows the recruiting team to see non-verbal cues from the candidate. The length of the whole process is varying from a week to two months. 

Career Prospects

As a cable network, Discovery is the right place to start for art and design, and media-centric major graduates. However, a career path in a cable network is not limited to a production-related department. It also offers career opportunities for business and legal affairs, IT engineering, public relations, and communications. If you are interested in production roles, you can start your career as a videographer, video editor, production assistant, content operation, content compliances, researcher, and many more. And if you are interested in other departments, it is a good place to start as a digital marketer, sales, digital ad specialist, public relations, and even a UI/UX designer. 

Remuneration

Discovery pays interns ranging from $22.000 up to more than $90.000 depending on the roles. A social media intern, public relations intern, digital media intern, and corporate communication intern may receive $22.000 up to $29.000 annually. A digital marketing intern, digital analytic intern, or product design intern may receive $34.000 up to $39.000 annually. While full-time employees receive a higher salary. For a start, a video editor may get $77.000, a production assistant may get $48.000, a media strategist may get $73.000, a marketing staff receives $77.000, and producers can get $90.000 up to $110.000 annually. 

Benefits

  • Health insurance, dental insurance, and vision insurance
  • Life insurance. Accidental and dismemberment insurance
  • Health saving account, retiree health and medical
  • Mental health care. Health care on-site
  • Disability insurance
  • 401k plan, performance bonus, retirement plan
  • Maternity & paternity leave, family medical leave
  • Work from home, reduced/flexible hours
  • Adoption assistance. Fertility assistance
  • Vacation & paid time off, paid holidays, sick days, and bereavement leave
  • Employee discount

Social Contributions

Discovery involved itself in many non-profit initiatives and campaigns throughout the years. For example, Discovery Channel divided its social activity programs into two participation segments, one that solely focused on the public or its audience (consumer-facing) and another one involving its own employees (employee-facing). In the consumer-facing segment, Discovery partnered with No Kid Hungry for Turn Up! Fight Hunger program which reaches the audience to donate. During the pandemic, with schools closed, the program provide 1 billion meals for the children in need. Discovery also partnered with UNICEF USA through RISE program (Reducing Inequality and Supporting Empowerment) helped to deliver 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to frontline healthcare workers and underserved communities.

Controversies

As a cable network that aired various programs, Discovery Inc. was often hit by critics concerning its ethics and the way its crew program worked in the field. One of the most notable concerns raised among the public was when one of Discovery’s Channel programs, Sons of Guns, committed an act that alarmed Dallas International Airport’s security system. The two crew members of Sons of Guns left a rental van full of explosives and guns outside the airport. What deemed the act even worse was the fact that it happened on 11 September 2011. This case even caught the FBI’s attention and the airport was put on lockdown for a couple of hours. 

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