American Express reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(18,670 total reviews)
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Stephen J Squeri

89% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

American Express has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 18,670 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 Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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19K reviews
1.0
Mar 10, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits and ok pay. I loved the cafeteria. The people who worked there were super friendly and nice. Amazing training. I knew what I was dong on the phones and it gave me confidence when I talked to customers. The equipment and office tools were amazing. I loved my office space they gave me.

Cons

If you don't like being micro managed about every little thing you do, don't work here. This job knew when you were going to the bathroom and if you didn't get back on the phones in time, a ton of managers would harass you about it. This company is all about politics, drove me crazy. I worked customer service which is amazing for the customer but the employees are all under appreciated and burnt out and management doesn't care. They also have a meeting were you sit and listen to your calls in a room with the area president and your manager and his manager of the company, can we say stressful job people! If they weren't so strict about the time you spent there and would actually get to know the employees and not treat them like robots, it would have been better. The schedules were a joke, basically the people who would kiss upper managements butts got promoted and got the schedules they wanted. It wasn't the most skilled employees like they say when they hire you. I hear other departments in the company are better but this department is horrible and all about who is friends with the boss.

5.0
Mar 6, 2013

Used to be a nice place to work

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice culture and very nice people work there

Cons

Senior leadership is having a mid life crisis and they are trying to transform the company into google or apple, but without changing the organization accordingly

1.0
Feb 6, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It has been a great company to work for great work life balance

Cons

too many rif's (reduction in force) and reorgs leadership hire / fire and review you based on perception, not what you can do.

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