Too much brainwashing - Anonymous employee American Express Employee Review

1.0
Jul 29, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great company benefits and salary.

Cons

- Management is constantly only talking about building relationships as the way to be promoted. - Employee cannot fully be themselves, they have to blend into the mold the management want to create - A lot of herd mentality, whoever who disagrees to them will silently suffer - Micromanaging staff to the maximum - Staff at lower levels all will suffer - Although company discourages discrimination, discrimination happens all the time and there is nothing the employee can do about it. When a case is lodged over to the internal whistleblower team, the victim gets a serious repercussion, questioned by their leaders and they will try to take action against the reporter. - Does not help employee who are not performing too well. While it is survival of the fittest in every big corporation, but AMEX in Malaysia is cold blooded. The management only keeps the people they want to keep. - Country Executive Team tries to pretend to be nice and polite. Always try to brainwash the employees to vote for the company so that they can win JD Powers Award or AON Hewitt.. but the truth is, people are really afraid of doing otherwise because of repercussions. Even posting this in glassdoor is a risk to all the employees because they will silently investigate who the employee is and take action against them

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