American Express Environment Employee Reviews | Comparably
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American Express Environment Employee Reviews

What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?

If you get in the right department your work life can be better balanced.

Colleagues helping each other out

Great culture, wonderful people, amazing perks

Colleagues at American Expressed are encouraged to bring their "Whole Self" to work. Leadership strives to ensure all lifestyles are represented. There are numerous colleague networks that address those values.

For the most part , Ive had a positive experience with the exception of Centurion as that it is where all my issues started . There needs to be trainers that actually know Centurion as mines did not work in Centurion at all . I endured workplace bullying here which i am now having to seek therapy .

I enjoy being around bright people and I think my co-workers are among the brightest.

Review from Business Development Dept

Great culture and values here

Review from Customer Support Dept

People first. Good benefits and positive attitudes

Inclusive and diverse environment to work at

Good people around me ...

Diversity and inclusion plays a big part on our values

Work life balance and flexibilty of work hours

Most positive that there is continuous learning. You learn new everyday

The leadership principle of "bring others along" makes American Express a positive environment.

Review from Engineering Dept

Members are always focused on finding solutions

We work from home often.

Diverse, authentic and supportive. Focussed on development

totally laid back work culture

Provides feedback for career growth. Promotes work life balance

I bonded very well the on my department.

What needs to change to make the company culture better?

Politocal racial unfair favouritism .

listen to the managers and colleagues more

Review from Engineering Dept

There needs to be a leadership overhaul, bring in people that are innovative and understand how to build a positive and Agile organization not rely on controlling legacy leaders to change it - they can't.

Respect and inclusion. Systematic bias is very well engrained and the system grows toxic leaders. The voice of colleagues don’t matte

realistic timelines and willingness to stay the course for an iteration

An understanding of the leadership behaviors that contribute to a great culture.

Focus on the bigger picture. Too much is flowing down to the front lines, without thought to how it impacts our productivity and ability to truly impact the company. Leadership needs to be more in touch with the field and what is going on at a day to day basis.

delegation or work needs to be distributed better

Review from Finance Dept

There is way too much turnover. In my service center where there were 1500 employees at one time, now it's about half that and the company appears to care much more about getting by today than planning for the future. More so than anything, I feel AXP is in a downward spiral.

Review from Legal Dept

Improve working environment hire capable people

Review from Engineering Dept

3+ years and you can’t implement change. Everything is more about what level are you. Lots of beurocacy, too. Only staying because I can work from home a lot.

Review from Finance Dept

Recognise experienced employee’s loyalty and not believe only external hires are good!

Review from IT Dept

My team leader always takes the customers side even before hearing the whole story. There is a lack of helpfulness from my team leader

Review from Sales Dept

Quick decision. Empower employees to make decisions. Improve IT Delivery, funding and focus on code quality.

Review from Engineering Dept

Politics politics politics and over ridiculous things

Review from Engineering Dept

Treating people with respect and recognizing good work.

Review from Customer Support Dept

Political

Review from Engineering Dept

Review Sentiment at American Express

74
74%
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26%

About American Express' Environment

B-
69/100

Where This Score Ranks American Express' Environment

TOP
40%

In the Top 40% of 1188 similar size companies on Comparably

TOP
50%

In the Top 50% of 523 companies in New York

4th

4th place versus 5 competitors rated on Comparably

The environment at American Express is considered positive by 75% of employees and regarded as having a “comfortably fast” work pace by 98 employees. Relative to its competitors, Discover, Capital One, Mastercard, PayPal, and Visa, American Express' environment score ranks in 4th place. This also puts them in the Top 40% of 1188 similar sized companies (10,000+ Employees) on Comparably and Top 50% of 523 companies in New York.

Rate Environment the Highest

  • Department - Customer Support
    +10%
  • Department - HR
    +9%
  • Ethnicity - African American/Black
    +8%

Rate Environment the Lowest

  • Gender - Non-Binary
    -33%
  • Department - IT
    -16%
  • Ethnicity - Other
    -15%

How American Express' Environment Score is Calculated

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Results from 290 Employees in All Departments, All Genders, All Ethnicities and All Yrs. Experience Experience

AnswerPercent
7 or less12%
853%
1022%
126%
More than 127%
On average, how many hours do you work a day?
AnswerPercent
Extremely fast17%
Comfortably fast35%
Moderate26%
A bit slow10%
Bureaucratic12%
What's the work pace at your company?
AnswerPercent
Positive75%
Negative25%
Is your work environment positive or negative?
AnswerPercent
Yes33%
No67%
Does someone you work with closely, make you want to quit your job?
AnswerPercent
Yes59%
No41%
Do you have a close friend at work?
AnswerPercent
5% or Less24%
5-10%23%
10-25%29%
25-50%12%
50%+12%
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