American Express Reviews

Pros

Strong company, good benefits, focus on employee development

Cons

Frequent restructure can be somewhat disruptive to long-term projects

Pros

pro is work and life balance, people respect each other, and work with each other well, very diversified culture, many female leaders

Cons

dont have any suggestion for current management at american express , maybe the company can promote more young people who really wants to grow in the company

Advice to Senior Management

dont have any suggestion for current management at american express , maybe the company can promote more young people who really wants to grow in the company

Pros

Location, is one of the best in NYC World Financial Center on the Hudson River.
Great work environment
Professional atmosphere

Cons

The company is consensus driven to a fault. Can be frustrating.
It is my opinion that it culls older workers on a regular basis.

Advice to Senior Management

American Express has reinvented itself many times in the past. They may be too card centric to survive a payment process game changer.

Pros

Absolute respoect for the individual and a great diversity base. The company prides itself in looking after the customers like no other, and the actions taken truly are aligned to that. The company looks forward to greater challenges and all are involved.

Cons

Decision making tends to be somewhat slow and based always on consensus.

Pros

Large organization can offer a series of experiences

Cons

hierarchical and bureaucratic which can put off employees

Advice to Senior Management

invest in people

Pros

If you like work life balance you will enjoy working here. However, too much balance can hamper your career advancement.

Cons

While it promotes diversity, the management team remains a bastion of white males. The company can use much more diversity in its management team.

Advice to Senior Management

There are times when you need to trim the ranks for the betterment of the company. Trim the dead weight more often.

Pros

great benefits, can have good career progression opportunites

Cons

some management is poor, very clicky within staff

Pros

Great Pay and Benefits
Nice work environment
Flexible with work schedule/location can work from home some days

Cons

constant reorgs and layoffs
replacing employees with onbshore contractors is a continued and aggressive trend
Not even competition against h1b worker for it jobs, as they don't have the same expenses as cirtizens
Must be able to "live with" training H1B workers who will take over US jobs

Advice to Senior Management

Why do you pay 75 dollars an hour to have a contractor work onshore, and only 45 dollars an hour to an employee? I just don't see the economics. Plus there is a high turnover and these folks are usually young and inexperienced it workers. They don't seem to have any more skills and experience than our employees that have been laid off and lost their jobs over the years.

Pros

good career stability and growth

Cons

high pressure environment with great team goals

Advice to Senior Management

take it easy .

Pros

Smart people, if you're a marketer it's one of the best marketing firms

Cons

Long hours - not always thinking outside the box and hard to see what will happen when most of the world's payments will NOT be on the card but on a smartphone or computer