Too many coffee chats - Anonymous employee American Express Employee Review

There's too much of an emphasis on coffee chats. I'm sorry but I'm too busy between meetings, conference calls and actually getting work done than to network and sell myself at the office. Your work doesn't speak for itself, you'll need to market yourself to leadership. It doesn't matter if what you launch is successful because soon, you'll get promoted and move to another group in a year, if you have the right connections and someone else will have to clean up your mess. You'll always have to manage up, your boss doesn't know how to manage you. Your boss may not even understand what your projects entail because all they do is report up to their VP. Too many levels and so much redundancy, a really frustrating experience and inefficiency everywhere. Digital transformation is a joke, agile is a joke when you have 20+ people on a conference call. The only reason to work there is to get the name on your resume and if you're planning to have a family, it's a great place to work due to benefits.