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      4.1

      81% would recommend to a friend

      (18,594 total reviews)
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      Stephen J Squeri

      89% approve of CEO

      79% positive business outlook

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      4.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Senior management

      American Express has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 18,594 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
      5.0
      Mar 1, 2009

      Strong Talent, bureaucracy abounds - if you can navigate this place is for you!

      Director
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      Pros

      The diverse set of talent across the organization, helps to keep you exposed to new ideas and forces you to understand your own career inspirations/direction as many folks just know what they want to do when they 'grow up'. Pay is reasonable and if you are in marketing this is a premier brand to take with you anywhere.

      Cons

      In a word, bureaucracy. Amex is the premier expert in creating silos and tearing down ease of work in order to increase the complexity of doing business. Many times the ideas are sound and might even make sense, until you've been around a while and its clear that politics are usually the biggest drivers for centralizing or decentralizing (and back again) a specific organization. The fact that we are in a very challenging time almost allows this type of behavior to go on, the best power players will survive, those with less skill will be posting on LinkedIn...

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