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

Be Prepared to be treated like a number, a headcount per say. You are 100% replaceable, however, you can never touch management - those that are Directors or above. I’d like to see “management” do half the work non management takes on. Be prepared to be told “no” when you come up with new ideas or propose suggestions. You will get the response “leadership does not agree or support that.” This is because leadership is stuck in 1990, but with updated technology. HR is a joke and needs to be evaluated by an outside consulting firm or get a new leader to clean house.