Best place I have ever worked - Anonymous employee American Express Employee Review

5.0
May 23, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The talent is incredible, the work life balance is great, and we are always getting to work on something new. The team I work on and the various partners in our group are very intelligent and accomplish amazing things. There are very few times each year that require huge amounts of over time. The projects that come through are always interesting, especially the technology related ones.

Cons

Corporate policy and procedures can be tricky to navigate.

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you will be taking phone calls every minute of the day. There will come a time where you feel like at the bottom of the world. You will ask yourself "is my role in life to help people reset their password online and assist them in logging in?" You cannot use the bathroom whenever you want, they have time coding that if you "abuse" them you will be flagged and subject to discipline. You have to give world class service but at the same time rush them off the phone or else you are not getting paid a good bonus. You will quickly find yourself gasping for air and time to relax when you take 50+ calls a day , you will feel drained. When is finally time to move up there is a high chance you will be paid less than you're current role as there are no bonuses in higher roles.

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