Not for me but others seem to love it there. - Customer Care Professional American Express Employee Review

4.0
23 May 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The salary was fair...the average ranges from 12.00-15.00 depending on your experience. Good cafeteria. vacation hours (about 280) are given to you almost immediately, which can be dangerous because if your department isn't busy you can pretty much schedule a vacation day within a half hour and leave. they have a sweet scheduling system that lets you schedule single or multiple vacation days and you can keep pretty close track of your time and sick time as well. Most managers and co-workers really do want to help you, managers want to help "develop" you and get you promoted because of course it looks good for them too.

Cons

For me it was the repetition of the same call all day that grinded me down. Also the constant surveillance, they have very advanced tracking systems for their calls, they have screen and audio capture so they can pull ANY call from ANY day and see exactly what you did and said. You are required to clock in and out on your phone from every break and when you come in and when you leave at the end of the day. most team leaders have to meet with the department heads weekly and some only monthly depending on their teams performance. I think for this reason all team leads have an excel worksheet for all of their teammembers outlining every "metric" you meet and don't meet.

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Pros

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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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