American Express reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(18,595 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 18,595 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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2.0
Dec 7, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work from home. Good computer

Cons

Training was a facade. This job is mostly handling customer service inquiries for flight changes or one off scenarios with customers asking about things that no one knows the answers to except the airline or the hotel. The types of calls are so random and finding answers is too complicated. Everyone is constantly in a chat room with other agents asking for answers. Calls come in, we stop ask for an answer in chat and then try our best to explain something we have very little understanding of. In training they pitch this idea that you will be building a personalized travel adventure for customers. That is a total lie. It is nothing more than confused customers calling you for answers you do not have. The whole job is pure chaos 24/7. For customers who are shopping for travel, they just want you to find the EXACT hotel and EXACT flight that they saw somewhere online and many times the "system" cannot find those rates that they saw. Amex is a joke.

2.0
Aug 14, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work flexibility, amex flex plan, benefits

Cons

Likely to get stuck with a late shift, salary is not comparable with the cost of living in Toronto, customers frequently treat you like garbage off of the street, no flexibility to move departments, pacesetter program should be based off of additional factors and not who makes the most money or is management's favorite

2.0
Feb 16, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people you work with are great. Teams do work well together once you get used to al of them. That can be a bit hard when you are first learning. The benefits are solid, but not great. In light of the pandemic, they have made changes that are good.

Cons

You cannot grow and gain skills in your role. If you want to move forward in the company, you need to do trainings on everything. There's no hands-on experience. There's no desire to up-skill employees. Senior Management wants everyone to be the same type of manager and worker. When you want or try to do thing differently, they tell you to stop. There's fear of trying new things and taking a chance on someone. Instead, it's all about playing it safe. Things take way too long to complete, with some exceptions. For some projects, you need to have 3-4 teams involved in the decision process. That's not efficient. Everyone is stuck in back to back meetings all day. Processes are inefficient. There is never enough time or people to get work done. You always seem to be on a small and mighty team trying to do the work of a large team. Based on how projects are run, there's never an end game. There's never a light at the end of the tunnel.

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