Friendly place to work but extremely inefficient and bureaucratic...can't make progress. - Manager American Express Employee Review

2.0
9 Feb 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Very friendly, welcoming and helpful corporate culture (at least in Phoenix). Excellent training program and excellent benefits.

Cons

Extremely bureaucratic, a lot of turf protecting, management not really willing to go to bat for you. Although people are friendly and willing to help, most of the time they just send you in circles. Very hard to get answers and a lot of defeatist attitudes. Recruitment process very impersonal and again, bureaucratic.

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Cons

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Pros

- Complimentary lunch and starbucks everyday - On-site clinic for basic check ups - Hybrid

Cons

you will be taking phone calls every minute of the day. There will come a time where you feel like at the bottom of the world. You will ask yourself "is my role in life to help people reset their password online and assist them in logging in?" You cannot use the bathroom whenever you want, they have time coding that if you "abuse" them you will be flagged and subject to discipline. You have to give world class service but at the same time rush them off the phone or else you are not getting paid a good bonus. You will quickly find yourself gasping for air and time to relax when you take 50+ calls a day , you will feel drained. When is finally time to move up there is a high chance you will be paid less than you're current role as there are no bonuses in higher roles.

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