American Express reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(18,633 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 18,633 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 Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Dec 8, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

great pay, benefits, flex, work from home

Cons

management incompetent, VERY high stress. They will tell you in the interview its not a sales job, but in training and on the job, 90% of focus is up-selling. Yes, the pay is great for upselling, you can make tons of money just by selling more, but the pressure is ridiculous. You will be pulled off the phone all the time just to have a meeting on how to sell more. You will be bombarded with slack messages all day every day about sells and your numbers. Calls are back to back literally from the moment you clock in until you clock out and you are expected to be in ready every second. management is not concerned with your mental health, only making sure you make their numbers look good so they can keep their job. And dont even get me started on how rude the customers are. Whining about their credit card and cursing you out or speaking to you horribly if you dont waive a fee for them. They throw temper tandums like entitled brats and you are expected to be their emotional punching bags with a smile. Micromanagement is freaking HORRIBLE. You cant even step away to pee for 5 minutes without being slacked about it. They treat their employees like robotic children. If you like being under pressure, having to answer calls literally back to back with no rest in between for your entire shift, every single shift, and being extremely micomanaged, then maybe this job is for you.

1.0
Aug 24, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Brand name. Good training. Good on CV.

Cons

The reports in the media about American Express having an "anti-white" culture are true. The culture fosters a culture of racism against Caucasians and actively discriminates in both hiring and promotion. It embraces and teaches Critical Race Theory and its leaders regularly bad-mouth the United States.

1.0
Jun 24, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Job stability and nothing else

Cons

No focus on innovation, extremely polluted culture, insane levels of politics, red tape, beuraceacy, leaders are non technical jokers not even having a science degree, demanding respect from everyone but experts in lying and biasing, use of foul language especially by engineering directors and especially non deserving and non capable ones. Overall I will give it 0 stars if u intend to join technology dept.

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