American Express reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(18,652 total reviews)
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Stephen J Squeri

89% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

American Express has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 18,652 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The American Express employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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19K reviews
1.0
Sep 19, 2020

Smoke and mirrors

Recommend
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Pros

Excellent compensation, especially if you get the bonus. Insane amounts of PTO (7 weeks, the let you 'buy' an extra week)

Cons

I could write a novel on the cons. I was hired as an engineer, but I haven't written code longer than five lines since I started here. We just slap spreadsheets into tables, and voila! we're engineers. Our leader is unable to make and adhere do a decision and severely lacks leadership skills. It has taken us nearly one full year to build a report portal. This is something that could have been done by a group of high school kids in a few weeks. Trying to bring in external tools to make our jobs more efficient is nearly impossible. The red tape is so thick, it would be faster to build your own operating system than try to buy useful software. The group I work for seems to want to find problems for their solutions instead of solving actual business problems. I heard a funny term, "resume driven development". As mentioned in other reviews, AMEX is not a place to grow your skills, but a place to get complacent and cash checks. If you're eager to learn, grow, and do amazing things, keep looking. This is not the place for growth. If you're close to retiring and want to put your feet up on your desk for 7.5 hours a day, welcome aboard.

1.0
Sep 15, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Salary. You will prepare harder to get out of this company.

Cons

I literally have nightmares of my manager calling me. Talking about work life balance, you can forget about the life part. Not even a pinch of respect for employees. Literally counts the hours of the work and asks about what i did in remaining time. Please don't apply to this company no matter how much salary they offer you.

1.0
Jun 13, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Generally touts good work life balance and this is overall the case, however can vary by direct manager. Decent cafeteria.

Cons

Politics and optics are key to success here, rather than actually making substantive impact. Slow moving and lots of red tape making the experience untransparent and frustrating at times. People feel uncomfortable giving feedback because the culture isn't set up for it, resulting in a lot of passive aggressive comments and gossiping in the workplace that get cycled back to you.

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