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

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
Nov 20, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

You work on many projects that have a lot of impact on the market. Almost always challenging and fast pace. Good work life balance with and comfortable pay for being in Chicago.

Cons

A lot of politics. Sometimes you are working more over the weekends or after normal work hours if your projects require it.

2.0
Nov 19, 2017

Aging dinosaur slowly going extinct

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The compensation is strong, with a healthy base salary and bonus/equity structure. The hours are easy, with many people working <40 hours a week. There are pockets of talented people that can get great things done, if you can find them.

Cons

All the signs of a complacent monopoly going extinct are there. Uninspiring and inauthentic senior management more concerned with their golden handcuffs than their people and challenging the status quo. Bad HR policies that stifle talented mid-level employees. Toxic, gossip-filled, silo'ed, and territorial culture that deserves its own Uber-style exposure. Splashy efforts at "innovation," but when's the last time CME made real profit on a new business? Fun tip: look at the tone-deaf propaganda responses from HR on these Glassdoor reviews that politely deny that any problems exist, often with a line like "that's not the environment we recognize!" and a reference to an engagement survey that's taken every two years. For example, they say that their education reimbursement is twice the industry average! Wow! But they fail to mention it used to be 100% covered. People joined specifically for this benefit, before it was ripped away with no warning, causing major life disruptions. To sum up CME as a place to work: it's all talk, little action, and no accountability. Stay away if you're ambitious and want to work with smart, competent people.

5.0
Nov 16, 2017

runner

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I loved working with numbers

Cons

There was nothing that i disliked about the job

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