American Express reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(18,675 total reviews)
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Stephen J Squeri

89% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

American Express has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 18,675 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 Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Feb 6, 2013
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Pros

It has been a great company to work for great work life balance

Cons

too many rif's (reduction in force) and reorgs leadership hire / fire and review you based on perception, not what you can do.

1.0
Jan 25, 2013

Toxic No Job security and statistic driven, employees walk out in droves

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I have no good feedback for this company. It used to be a good company but not anymore. Jobs are being removed in Australia and taken overseas. No job security and managers are statistic focused. Very demoralising company to work for

Cons

So many negatives for this company. Surveys that was being filled up by customers about the company is used as basis of the performance of the employees. I bet you customers did not know that. It's a miserable company that don't pay the right wages. They wanted freebies from their employees

5.0
Jan 16, 2013
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Pros

They are extremely supportive of work/life balance, offering flextime and work at home options. They are a very stable, mature company who treat their employees with respect and courtesy. As a result, they have a freakishly low turnover rate. I used to wonder how they managed to make money with all the employee coddling they do... but they make money hand over fist, year after year.

Cons

Like most tech groups, they are outsourcing a TON of jobs to India. This creates a lot of stress for US-based employees, who struggle with both time differences and culture/language obstacles. Amex goes on a 12-18 month cycle of layoffs, and they seem to be getting deeper and more frequent. People don't often quit the company, but the constant spectre of layoffs feels like a game of Russian roulette sometimes. Because the company is so mature, they have very rigid processes. They're trying to establish an entrepreneurial splinter group to develop mobile applications to stay competitive, and they've deliberately kept it separate from the rest of Technologies so it can function more like a west coast start-up company. However, peeps who are used to the silicon valley atmosphere will HATE Amex unless they get into that one mobile dev group.

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