American Express reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(18,592 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 18,592 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 Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Nov 22, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Work at Home Insurance Co-Workers Diversity They also supply the hardware for your job

Cons

Please don't even apply for the AT Home position. I left my job of 5 years for this job, and I still regret it. This company lies to its employees constantly, they dont give you all the information about the position. But in training after you have sent in your two weeks notice to your employer for American Express they tell you "Oh yeah by the way – more... you need to finish these 10 transactions the customer ask of you in 3 minutes." Really if you had told me that I wouldn't have resigned from my job . I asked the interviewer numerous times why was I in training for 3 months she said "Oh just so we can make sure you know the product." They have all these rules on how they can fire you. Call avoidance, Taking too long on a call, System Issues, Transferring, being in auxillary mode and Surveys. Let me just talk about surveys for a second. They will hold you accountable even if it's something that is totally unreasonable and out of even their own company policy and the customer complains in a survey about it. This company is run by a bunch of idiots.Then they have micro managers on the phone that will hold you accountable for what the past rep did to the customer and when you try to fix it for them, management tells you , you were on the phone too long. We asked our trainer what the success rate was for graduating training we were lied to and told he only got rid of 1 person all the time he has been training . While I was in training 3 people were fired just in my training class.They also put a Webcam in your house during training .STAY AWAY!

2.0
Jan 13, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

In the past, an associate-level employee, without a college degree, had a high level of job security, as long as they were hardworking, knowledgable, and able to adapt to a constantly changing environment. Wages were lower than for comparable positions in other companies, but offset by great time-off and medical benefits. Opportunities for advancement were always available for the those adept at playing politics.

Cons

Extremely political and there's a definite caste system at play. Feedback from lower-level employees is consistently disregarded, no matter how valuable. The open-door policy is a joke and utilized at your own risk. The newest hurdle Customer Care Professionals have to deal with is TBASS, a feedback tool that asks customers to evaluate their experience with American Express. Their are five ratings the customers can give for the entire process from start to finish: excellent, very good, good, fair and poor. The problem for CCPs is that they are held responsible for the score given for the entire process, not just the part of the process they're responsible for. For example, a customer can provide feedback that they were unhappy with their line of credit (something that a CCP has no control over) and give the process a poor rating; the CCP is then held accountable for that rating. Adding salt to the wound is that fact the majority of the calls have to receive an excellent rating (Top Box Score) or the CCPs don't meet the goals for "customer satisfaction. So, if a CCP receives one excellent rating and ten very good ratings, they could be subject to performance counseling. The focus for 2009 is going to be on Recommend to Friend scores, which again will be a difficult if not impossible goal to reach with the tightened credit policies that American Express has implemented. And athough time-off benefits are still excellent, medical coverage has deteriorated.

1.0
Jun 10, 2025

Engineers Beware

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people are cool. Its fun to talk with them.

Cons

Everything. The pay is low for how many hours you'll work. All of those work life balance comments must be from non engineers. If you write code, get ready to work 65-80 hour weeks. Its super political. Ive seen people i was friends with turn bitter when politics got involved. Right now, its a culture of who works the latest and covers for the engineering leaderships lack of accountability and planning. You will not progress in your career. The technologies used here are outdated, and niche to the company. You will not get promoted ever. I've seen people here for years in the same position because they didn't play politics. I saw someone on another team just get hired and fired in 3 months due to a mistake in growth. You might get hired then they decide to cut you. Very cutthroat business environment, and you will pay for leadership mistakes. If you like getting calls at 11 PM to log on and help fix a director mistake, working 80 hour weeks consistently, not being able to use PTO because youre too busy.... definitely apply. If youre an engineer, id advise you apply somewhere where they'll at least pay you 300k to work this many hours.

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