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CME Group

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CME Group reviews

4.0

73% would recommend to a friend

(236 total reviews)
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Terry Duffy

78% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.0

Culture & values

4.0

Work/Life balance

4.0

Compensation and benefits

3.9

Diversity & inclusion

3.6

Senior management

3.5

Career opportunities

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236 reviews

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3.0
May 24, 2019

Tough culture

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good compensation & benefits Financially healthy company

Cons

No opportunities for advancement No flexibility for work/life balance

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CME Group Response
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Thanks for sharing your feedback. We’re glad you appreciated our market competitive total rewards program during your time with us. With respect to your comments on career advancement, we believe that the numbers speak for themselves. Over the last 12 months, 14% of our employees were promoted, exceeding the industry average. CME Group has a strong focus on work/life balance, offering flexible work arrangements and a working remotely policy for more than 10 years. In our last company-wide engagement survey, 78% of employees indicated that they are able to maintain a healthy balance between their work and personal lives, which exceeds the norm for other higher performing companies.
2.0
Apr 30, 2019

Pros and Cons

Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
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Pros

Salary and bonuses are generous. On most teams, you can work from home occasionally.

Cons

Highly political climate Job happiness depends on your particular IT team. Our manager has "favorites" and isn't always honest with us. Moving to open space as they consolidate Chicago IT staff at 20 S Wacker location. It's being done to squeeze more staff into a smaller space. Most are not happy about it.

3.0
Apr 9, 2019

The Tech Division is Hemorrhaging

Software engineer
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CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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