American is a good place to work but don't expect too much - Analyst American Airlines Employee Review

4.0
Mar 22, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent benefit package, collaborative peers, friendly, casual atmosphere, work life balance easy to maintain. Good performers will find it easy to move around laterally within the company and it's strongly encouraged.

Cons

Emphasis on MBA track so difficult for aspirational non-MBA peers to progress in their careers. Completely useless annual evaluation that changes metrics/focus every year. Great place to work if you don't mind the lack of career advancement opportunities. The company has a reputation for being the industry's training ground and it's well deserved as high performers who can't advance can be found at every competitor airline.

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Pros

Climate and culture are positive

Cons

Flight benefits difficult to use, and slightly lower salary compared to other companies due to flight benefits

2.0
Jul 15, 2026
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Pros

It provides training for Tier 1 IT Support. You will be introduced to how the first line of IT works.

Cons

The compensation range provided by the recruiter will not be applied when they offer you the role. It will be (below minimum) . The job itself feels like a mixture of IT and customer service. You will eventually take ( calls +messages) at the same time for a very low pay. This department laid off over half of their team members to save cost and to establish an off shore team in India. They have been interviewing candidates for (months) to fill up a few spots but obviously the trick of offering low compensation at the end of the process did not work well. One more thing to mention, forget about moving forward to a better role within the company. Most likely it will not happen based on what I heard from other members. No differential for after hours and night shift pay is the same for night shift

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