American Express reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(18,635 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 18,635 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 Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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19K reviews
3.0
Oct 16, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Easy work Not demanding hours

Cons

Not doing important work Very much a cog in a machine Had to occasionally work nights to accommodate teams in India Nothing special about this company or job

1.0
Sep 29, 2023

Don't Go There!

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Training team and peers mostly friendly and professional.

Cons

1. Shift Patterns are very bad, flexibility not as advertised, destroys social life, family life and outside interests. All played down on recruitment. 2. Team Leaders are negative, condescending, inefficient and picky. They disappear whenever an escalated issue comes up. 3. Review points system so unfair, you get bad reviews for other people's work. 4. Way too obsessed with phone stats: break times, log on, log off, lunches are very rigid and any deviation affects your stats and progress in company. 4. Good work is underplayed whole small errors are highlighted, massive imbalance. Only TWO out of TWENTY who started on same training team as me were still there after 9 months! = That says it all.

3.0
Sep 26, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The money if you are a top performer in sales is brilliant

Cons

American Express made leadership changes in 2021 who came in and completely destroyed the culture and the trust of the employees, upwards of 50% of the team left to a direct competitor as leadership removed incentive payments and changed commission structures giving people 50% pay cuts with 24 hours warning, there has been a mass exodus to the same competitor and despite the efforts of middle management the suggested changes to try to retain staff were ignored.

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