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
4.0
Nov 6, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A lot of pros at AMEX: -Base Pay -Incentive/Commission structure (payouts) -Employee Benefits are one of the best you’ll find -The Sunrise facility has a lot of nice resources such as cafeteria, lounge/game areas, fitness space, daycare, Starbucks, and concession areas -On-site nurse, physical therapist, and more things that I’m probably not aware of.

Cons

Customer service call centers are high-speed, high-stress environments and every move you make is being coded and recorded towards a compliance metric. Something as simple as taking off your headset to go to the restroom at your own discretion is not so simple at AMEX. You’re taking 50-80 calls a day and when you’re making that much contact with different people all over the country with their own issues and sass , it can be overwhelming, exhausting, and daunting.

3.0
Aug 3, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company has is very good at hiring people (customer care professionals). You will find great friends in this organisation. Additionally, the infrastructure in place is good, as well as little benefits like health care, free food is common. Management in general will treat you well.

Cons

The biggest downside is that if you do TOO WELL as a Customer Care Professional, you will not be promoted to other roles in the organisation. Your metrics are your leader's metrics as well and as such they do not have any incentive to lead you to other roles - its sad. Its very common to see people with not so great results get promoted, because their manager does not want them. However this is isolated to the Customer Care Professional role and teams only. Other teams I have been in are normal (I didn't have the best statistics and I was promoted).

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