American Express reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(18,644 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 18,644 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
Jan 17, 2026
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Pros

Work life balance, lenient schedule , pto days

Cons

- tech stack (very very boring) - speed of development (lots of red tape, harping in PR reviews) - lots of micromanagement, like let us cook ffs - tech is trash. Like no scale or latency or interesting problems to worry about

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