CME Group reviews

- Lack of leadership / strategic direction - everything is a top priority until it is forgotten about - Cost cutting to boost bottom line/stock price is top priority ($1 billion special dividend anybody?) - Long-tenured / talented staff are moving on to companies with better pay and/or better work life balance - Company is feeling the employee backlash from lay offs and has left remaining staff unmotivated, demoralized, or looking for new opportunities elsewhere - Outsourcing work to remote consultants / Hiring H1-B workers is current staff augmentation strategy - Managers receive little to no formal training and "wing it" with their direct reports - Communication from management is non-existent (unless you consider plagiarized HBR articles) - Flattening the company has resulted in limited opportunities for career growth / promotion, all while continuing to "Raise the Bar" when it comes to performance reviews

Too much politics to go up any higher. On my first day at this company, I asked one of my new colleagues, what his role was and he sarcastically replied, "I don't do anything". I found out eventually that he really didn't do anything. His answer was truer than he even realized. Rewards are based on how close you are to the management folks. Reward hard-working dev folks as well.