Band levels = Caste system - Anonymous employee American Express Employee Review

1.0
Jun 8, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- work from home Friday's - Hudson eats - decent benefits - across freedom tower - decent PTO - 6% 401k match

Cons

So everyone in the company has a band level. Like a manager would have be a band 30 and senior manager would be band 35 and so on. So when ever VPs and higher refer to people it's by band level. The lower you are the worst you are treated. It's pretty sick,

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Pros

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