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      CME Group

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      CME Group reviews

      4.0

      74% would recommend to a friend

      (1,325 total reviews)
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      Terry Duffy

      78% approve of CEO

      79% positive business outlook

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      CME Group has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,325 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CME Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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      4.0
      Apr 10, 2019

      Great Technical job! Advancement can be a challenge at times.

      Trade support analyst
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      Pros

      People were friendly, felt like a family. As long as you were in a position/team that you delivered on (contributed), things were good. The tough part is if you want to move up, you have to find other opportunities outside of your team.

      Cons

      1) You could be in the same position for many years. 2) Moving around to other departments could be a suicide mission. If you were not doing so well in a group/team. Then you easily face being let go. Luckily they offer the chance to move around. But if you are in the middle of a big Reorg, chances for finding a new team could run out fast.

      3.0
      Apr 9, 2019

      The Tech Division is Hemorrhaging

      Software engineer
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      Pros

      It’s difficult to find a better company if you just want to coast to retirement: new hires start at 23 days PTO, most managers have a liberal WFH policy, there’s a pension, etc. Stability. CME has exclusive rights to list some of the world’s most popular financial derivatives and lobbies aggressively for its interests. Great exit opportunities in finance and tech.

      Cons

      Demoralizing amount of red-tape. There is little financial incentive to over-perform. Target bonuses are small for the industry and little separates the highest and lowest performers, compensation-wise. Company-wide architectural decisions are made by the least qualified/most politically-connected, leading to brittle and unresilient systems. The tech division is rapidly turning over FTEs. The most motivated/talented engineers have been flocking to HFT and BigTech for a few years, and are subsequently backfilled with contractors and fresh college hires. This seems to be the conscious strategy going forward; let attrition take its course and hire armies of cheap foreign contractors to be trained by the one or two remaining holdouts.

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