Working at American Express in Tempe, AZ: 2 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Tempe, AZ Area

"Your experience at American Express will be highly dependent on your supervisor and your team. Some teams are very siloed in the work they get to tackle, supervisors may be highly technical but not great people leaders, and professional growth can be slow. However, in my experience, if you're ambitious and speak up for yourself, I found it totally doable to network with colleagues outside of my immediate team and get access to more challenging projects. All the supervisors I've worked with went out of their way to make sure I got what I needed in terms of professional development, and in turn it was an excellent work experience. There are a lot of amazing things about Amex - great senior leadership, high quality standards for shipped code (although, this is highly team dependent), and for a huge company they strive to embrace a lot of modern technology. The cons are that a lot of middle management in tech lack the people skills necessary to empower their employees (while this isn't my experience, I hear it quite a bit from colleagues), the culture is still quite corporate, changes take FOREVER to execute (I'm talking years...), and there's a lot of bureaucracy and politics, just like at any large corporate company."

What do you like about working at American Express?

"The job and the analysis work I do. I enjoy the team I work ."

What don't you like about working at American Express?

"I don't dislike anything other than I am a contractor at AMEX."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I have no suggestions for management at the moment. Management is great at AMEX."