American Express reviews

-Don't come to American Express, thinking that you'll be able to actually be a part of a creative marketing campaign. All messages are scrutinized by several compliance and legal groups and usually rejected for very small reasons. -The company structure is extremely hierarchical - If you play the game, suck up to your boss and speak up even if you have nothing valuable to add, you'll move up the ranks quickly -Quality of work has little to do with how you're evaluated. Your direct manager is usually not in the meetings that determine promotions and raises, therefore you're judged on how much others know about what you do (at a company of thousands of people...) -Too many cooks in the kitchen on every project destroy the original vision for most products -Pay is low compared to the competition - which leads to all of the good people jumping ship

Working around the clock. You basically work 24 hours a day with a break thrown in for your life. Management makes delivery promises that are based on complete fiction. Then they slave drive you to meet these unobtainable deadlines. Promotion or career advancement...don't even think about it! Basically if you don't make yourself "friendly" with a VP level executive, you will not get anywhere. It's really about who you know and who likes you more than your skills and abilities. Work life balance...oh yeah they have it....it's ALL WORK AND NO LIFE!!! Company has a chance to be really good place to be a good company but it falls short!