American Express reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(18,688 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 18,688 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
Jul 3, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Team Members are friendly and will assist you with questions and will always help you.

Cons

Stressful, unrealistic expectations by management, low pay, and low paying incentives. In the RLA segment under the Account Services (Credit) Department we are expected to deliver negative information to card members such as why we lowered their credit limit or cancelled their Amex account but do it in a way so that we may get a possitive T-Bass (Employee Survey e-mailed to the card members we interacted with). This segment (RLA/Dart) pays the least in incentives. The way raises work (raises are rated 1, 2 or 3 with "1" being the best. is that the Company will only allow a certain small percentage to get a "1," and then there is another percentage that will be rated as "2." Finally there is the percentage that will be rated as "3." So, if there are a number of employees in a segment who are all about equal, the team leaders get together and plead their case as to who should be rated as "1,"

4.0
Jul 2, 2012

A good employer

Recommend
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Pros

Good employer with respect for employees

Cons

Relatively less options for vertical growth.

4.0
Jul 1, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Travel Respect for each other.....the Blue Box values are a foundation of the company and the way people work together Work life balance is okay unless you are an overachiever, then it can be endless 'opportunity' to contribute....

Cons

Pay is below the relative pay scales for other companies with similar positions open... The decisioning structure sometimes makes it hard to get traction on innovative ideas

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