15$ lunch credit can cover your lunch. Colleagues are nice, helpful and friendly.
No opportunity to growth. Lots of bureaucracy and red tape. Outdated tech.
If you get at least Goals 2 and Leadership 1 at Amex you get $15,000 in Amex stock that vests after 3 years. You have to go above and beyond at work to get this rating. I got 2 1 this year so I got the stock but not sure if it’s worth it every year. TC with $15k stock: $185k Base: $135k Bonus: $35...Read more
Got asked, prior to interviewing, for a desired compensation package for a Director , technology strategy role in NYC, 8 YOE. Does anyone have any advice on what typical compensation looks like (base, bonus, stock) at American Express? Current tc: 265k
Already down almost 70% Also why do people make fun of people that work at Amex when our stock has been doing great?
Federal Investigators Probing AmEx Card Sales Practices - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-investigators-probing-amex-card-sales-practices-11610039815 What do y’all think 🤔 Amex stock is now down 4% on one of the best days for Wall Street lol.
any Amex folks can give a ballpark TC expectations for Director? Bonus structure? Stock/RSUs? Glassdoor/other seem inaccurate (or at least seem lower than expected) especially for NYC.
My goal is to eventually become a product manager, move outside of Arizona (born & raised), work for a company I enjoy working at (previously worked at a well known tech company, left due to toxic culture) Offer 1: Amazon, program manager in Seattle, 75k base, 7.5k bonus, 7.5k stock (total 90k) *I...Read more
Currently an L5 SDE at AWS. Been pulling about 80 hour weeks for the past couple of months or so. Great work, great team, great manager, but shitty pressure from our leadership (L7 and above) - well everything that was great is now essentially shit because of our leadership. It sucks because I real...Read more
Basically the title. Startup pays lower but has good tech stack with GCP, Airflow, Neo4J, Python. In Amex, the work is on Informatica. I like the culture at startup but I'm assuming WLB will take a hit as I'm only working like 6 hours a day(Fine with that). Tc @Startup: 10L base + 5L stock option...Read more
Need help picking one of the below in India - Amex gurgaon - ctc 17.5L (not aware of any additional benefits) Role - Product owner cum project manager cum business analyst Band 30 Verizon data services bangalore (anticipated)- Ctc -21L (+8k usd for training + roumered stock options after 1y) Rol...Read more
3.5 yoe ~$111.5k total yearly grossed at Indeed for 2023 ~$130k total yearly grossed at Amex with offer. Currently at Indeed.com making ~$95k base salary, and was awarded $35k in RSUs earlier this year. Assuming things continue, I could expect $35k in RSUs again in April, but that amount isn’t gua...Read more
Getting a loan from my parents to buy a $450,000 house. $90k sounds like because I can keep cash on hand. Here’s my $499k net worth broken down. Vanguard Roth IRA $43,765.42 Vanguard Brokerage $261,212.62 (all in a settlement fund now, sold all my stock to buy the house + furniture + peace of min...Read more
I received a job offer for a Product Manager/Product Owner role with Cognizant for their client American Express. It is a fully remote role and they are offering me 127K with no stock or Bonus. My background: I have 8 years of experience in total, out of which I have 5 years of experience as a Busi...Read more
Until recently, I believed that receiving stock as part of the compensation was rare or reserved to higher roles or Big Tech. Apparently, it is quite common in other companies as confirmed by other friends In Amex, this is reserved for VPs and up. No intro level, mids, or senior(not sure about dire...Read more
What's it like at Amex? I see they are hiring for engineering. I'm currently a CTO at a small startup but looking to move into a position where I travel less, code more, and don't work 60 hour weeks. I've been practicing LC for a potential Amazon/Meta gig, but I really love Amex's products and pot...Read more
Current job: Associate Product Manager at Amex Salary: 73,000 Bonus: top performer so I got a 6,000 bonus Stock: 0 Location: Phoenix, Arizona 401k: 6% match Pros: live with parents and pay $800 rent a month, siblings, nephews, parents here Cons: feel like I’m being paid 🥜 TC: 79,000 Job offer: Pr...Read more
In my offer letter and outlined in the company stock plan I should have received some options a couple months ago. Well I haven’t received them and each time I’ve asked about it I’ve gotten a run-around from management being ignorant on how to use the system to grant me access to it. The company (...Read more
Starting a Master post for all referral links for things that people can save some money on. Let's just share financial associated links only. - Schwab Investment [$1-$25k: $100, 25k-50k : $200, 50k-100k : $300, 100k+ : $500] https://bit.ly/2T2GIf0 - Personal Capital [$50 Amazon gift card just for...Read more
Long story short, after several trails, i finally could get out of Amex and I joined a tech company in the bay area as Principal Engineer. I now lead the technical design and delivery for 5 teams across the globe but the work almost feels redundant and unamusing due to the stagnant/monolith architec...Read more
I live and work in Arizona. I live with my parents and pay $800 in rent. I make $70,000 as an Associate Product Manager no stock, 6% 401k match. I see online that a Google APM makes $138,000. But cost of living calculators online indicate that to maintain my standard of living of a $70,000 salary i...Read more
Hi Everyone, I have 2 years 3 months of experience as a Data Analyst/Data Scientist in India. I recieved an offer recently from Amex for TC 21 LPA (Fixed+Variable) And now I have recieved an offer from a startup, just 1 year old and 1.6 million USD funding. Remote job, with offered TC 31.5 LPA(All...Read more