Recruiter to interview moved ok. One week intervals between each step. Their applicant interface is absolutely terrible. It put me off Amex for future jobs and perhaps even from using their products. Seriously, invest in a better applicant experience like Workday or something streamlined. You probably won’t get hired here if you’re a minority. If you are, you’ll likely have to be a sorority type with a 24 inch waist who doesn’t really need a job and lives off of a trust fund. When I went in for the interview, the senior manager who interviewed me was basically a 26 year old sorority girl upgraded, living on Park Avenue, Chanel flats, total trust fund kid. Don’t even bother. I was so deflated realizing that even as an accomplished person with a Master’s degree from a reputable institution and experience with two fortune 50 companies, they won’t hire you if you don’t fit their privileged mold or deviate from it. Also they tried to low ball me into oh hey a senior analyst makes $65-70 with a masters. Are we low balling the minority candidates on top of dismissing them completely because they didn’t go to the Chapin school or Bam Nightingale or another private school in the city. I was so incensed that after the interview I looked at the profiles of all the senior managers and managers and it occurred to me that they’re all basically the same demographic. Don’t bother applying, I am serious. You will waste so much time with their outdated candidate portal, then waste your vacation days interviewing with entitled privileged trust fund sorority girls. I may actually dismiss using any Amex products because of how horrible this experience was. And to add insult to injury, I got emails that were auto generated to keep applying for more crap roles that were well below what I was qualified to do. So the sorority girls with trust funds from Chapin are senior managers and the minorities with a larger than 24’ waist are designated to be support staff or individual contributors?! Good job in hiring Amex, real good on diversity and inclusion. Maybe you can hire a minority with a Master’s to be a janitor or receptionist for 40k and have them lorded around by trust
fund sorority girls in Chanel. Real good job on being an equal opportunity employer.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at American Express in Dec 2019
Interview
Interviewed over the phone with a recruiter. The next day got a phone call from a different recruiter asking to set up an in person interview time. I scheduled for the following week. Interview was standard behavioral questions. About a week later I got a call from a third recruiter saying I got positive feedback and would be brought in again for another in person interview after the holidays. A week after that, i got a phone call from the hiring manager saying they had given the job to someone else.
I applied online. I interviewed at American Express (New York, NY)
Interview
Applied for 2 marketing analytics positions. 1 Recruiter interview which went well, and then an in person was schedules for the following week. 40 MINUTES before my interview, I GET AN EMAIL SAYING THE 2 PEOPLE I WOULD BE INTERVIEWING WITH WOULD NOT INTERVIEW ME AND IT WOULD BE ONE DIFFERENT PERSON INSTEAD! The in person interview went well, and i was told i'd hear back in a week. It's been 6 weeks and no response. Not even a rejection. So disrespectful. The other position i applied for was even more insane. I get an call/ email from a different recruiter, asking me to send him a summary of myself / experience IN THE THIRD PERSON because he needed a list of candidates for a meeting with the hiring manager and.... i guess spent the week slacking off instead of conducting interviews? Never heard back from him either.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's a piece of constructive criticism someone gave you recently?