Director of Engineering - Director of Engineering American Express Employee Review

1.0
Sep 13, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Like people who are doers at working class level, and engineers.

Cons

Palo Alto office only hiring their relatives, friends who has no knowledge in the areas of expertise of technologies. Old school thoughts. One hand the leadership says business projections on track on another had they say quality is bad. No direct correlation. Please leaders by giving fat data meaningless that no one captures in software delivery for cloud tech stacks. Lack of leadership. Any one questioning “status quo” gets into bad politics. Many smart people left or got laid off because they spoke to make improvements or challenge old school thoughts. Very bad Leaders making hostile environment where you can not say anything. You lose your brightness abilities working with dumb old school thoughts. You work long hours literally 7 days a week for releases that is meaninglessness. Bringing contractors without interviews, knowledge. Looks some personal scam going on where management are making money, keeping in their pockets. Some ethnically issues going on. Talk to any doers they all feel this. Fix gaps with modern work culture.

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Pros

They have fantastic pay for the position you're in, and they teach you interesting and engaging utility of modern technology mixed with legacy fundamentals. I've learned quite a bit while AmEx while getting paid more than fairly - I'd recommend a stretch here to whomever may be reading this!

Cons

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