American Express reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(18,587 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 18,587 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
2.0
Aug 14, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Work flexibility, amex flex plan, benefits

Cons

Likely to get stuck with a late shift, salary is not comparable with the cost of living in Toronto, customers frequently treat you like garbage off of the street, no flexibility to move departments, pacesetter program should be based off of additional factors and not who makes the most money or is management's favorite

3.0
Sep 19, 2017

Travel Consultant

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

6 nights free stay in Fine hotels of the world/year. Company events such as hotels viewings/showcases. Long training. Opportunity after few years to work from home. Personal days, sick days, floater days, 3 weeks vacation per year.

Cons

No FAMs, no travel or growth opportunities. Premium travel and call center can not be combined! Period. They will force you to take calls and no one cares you work on big sale/client at the moment and in the end ask you to achieve aggressive sales targets. You feel watched all the time (because you actually are) and not only by manager/team leader but I had feeling that colleagues are in a competition of rating you out by any reason and any chance they get. Things take extremely long: if they say something is coming in quarter 1, expect it in quarter 4. They laid off people and took on new market of calls at the same time which resulted in long waiting times and not happy clients. In general Amex is not the same as it used to be years ago and clients slowly recognize that as well! Every 2 weeks you have a one on one coaching with your leader which lasts 1 hour. In reality it is even more often as you get pulled over to the separate room for every small mistake/comment about you. No work life balance as shifts can be between 7 am and 11 pm, weekends and holidays as well. Shift selection is only every 6 month or every year so if you stuck with no Saturday or Sunday off, you stuck for this long! Favoritism. Office moved form Downtown to North York because they are too cheap. Outdated IT systems. You measured against customer surveys that gets triggered by the call, so even if you very just doing transfer and customer gave you bad survey, guess who is going to be coached on it...you! You measured against a lot of things. On interview they will tell you about quarterly bonus but they will forget to tell you that it is pretty much impossible to get it because it once again depends on many measurements. Oh and on top of that senior management lie a lot.

3.0
Oct 1, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good management, good benefits and good training sales oriented , good benefits , average pay , average work life balance ,good training bonus can be lucrative if offered

Cons

work weekends many targets to meet , company outsourcing all the time . micro managed and call volume can be overwhelming , life work balance is not very good , no rest between calls and customer service surveys are expected to be excellent to get bonus

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