Is American Express a good company to work for as a Senior Manager - Risk Management?

Senior Manager - Risk Management professionals working at American Express have rated their employer with 4.0 out of 5 stars in 18 Glassdoor reviews. This is a lower than average score with the overall rating of American Express employees being 4.1 out of 5 stars. Search open Senior Manager - Risk Management Jobs at American Express now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Senior Manager - Risk Management interview questions at American Express .

Does American Express pay Senior Manager - Risk Management employees well?

Senior Manager - Risk Management professionals rate their compensation and benefits at American Express with 3.3 out of 5 stars based on 18 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 16.7% worse than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Senior Manager - Risk Management salaries at American Express.

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What are the pros of working at American Express according to real employee reviews?

"There are always people and teams you can get along with and have a good work/life balance." ((in 2652 reviews)); "Employees have autonomy to achieve in a results driven culture and great flexibility provided to staff in my area;" ((in 1638 reviews)); "The benefits are great and the array of what you are eligible for is impressive." ((in 1556 reviews)); "Most of the people are great; I built great friendships with a lot of the people there." ((in 1007 reviews)); "Pay was good and laid back work" ((in 778 reviews))

What are the cons of working at American Express according to real employee reviews?

"Base salary was low but once commission kicked in it was well worth the wait." ((in 487 reviews)); "Poor management team leads will overlook blatant collection law violations to achieve their teams numbers even to the point of lying to their card members" ((in 435 reviews)); "So if your team manager is good then you are good and if you get a bad manager then life is hell." ((in 210 reviews)); "Limited growth opportunities and learning" ((in 121 reviews)); "Managers are not impartial, often unprofessional and favoritism is common issue." ((in 82 reviews))

American Express Senior Manager - Risk Management reviews

4.0

100% would recommend to a friend

(18 total reviews)

Stephen J Squeri

100% approve of CEO

99% positive business outlook

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Senior Manager Risk Management employees have rated American Express with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 18 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Manager Risk Management professionals have a good working experience there. American Express is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Manager Risk Management professionals compared to other employers within the Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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18 reviews

3.0

Nov 5, 2008

Amex - good place to work but it won't knock your socks off

Senior manager - risk management

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Pros

Great work/life balance and everyone is very nice. The work can be rewarding and interesting. The company has a great reputation in the corporate world which is helpful when telling people where you work and applying for later jobs.

Cons

Because of the tendency towards "niceness", it can be difficult to understand what people really think and what is actually happening. All work is done by the managers and analysts - leaving a lot of time for many levels of "management" to talk about the work and change it around.

4.0

Oct 22, 2008

Good work culture but pay sucks

Senior manager - risk management

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Pros

Work life balance in some groups. - Although even this is slowly changing as the company downsizes because of the economy. Culture of caring about employees. - by and large Collaborative environment.

Cons

Salary sucks. Enormous amount of politics. Passive Aggressive culture, people are very nice to you but scheming behind your back! Start paying more to your high performers to retain talent. Some parts of Amex are just full of people with rich spouses and they dont care too much for money. However the ambitious, smart and driven people are also not compensated well. This will hurt the company in the long term.

4.0

Aug 8, 2008

Very well run company for (its size) with all the pros and cons that comes with the large size...

Senior manager - risk management

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Pros

The culture supported: work life balance; family friendly(popular with moms especially). The prospect for growth: great place to learn the credit card business. The career trajectory: you can always go up, however, sometimes outsiders who have worked at reputable firms get an accelerated boost.

Cons

The company's business model is so strong that not much risk-taking or innovation is nurtured, nor is it required for success, since the company is essentially a well-oiled money printing machine on the scale of a large battleship.

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