Cboe reviews

3.0

28% would recommend to a friend

(301 total reviews)
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Craig Donohue

13% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Cboe has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 301 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Cboe 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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301 reviews
3.0
May 7, 2026

Declining culture and benefits under new CEO

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Pros

Pros are slowly dying - remote work, great culture, excellent leadership, and career paths have all deteriorated. I’m sure other benefits will follow.

Cons

Since Craig has joined the company has gone through so much change. It’s still unclear if any of it will be for the better. The wealthy elites continue to oppress the working class by removing benefits and killing a culture we actually like. Look at what happened at occ and cme cultures under Craig. His command and control leadership style from the 80s has created a culture of fear and self preservation after half of the leadership team have left, who were actually good leaders. He wants to create a collaborative culture onsite with RTO yet we never see him and he doesn’t talk with the working class like the previous leadership and CEO did. Will the new regime share their millions with us? Of course not. Cboe isn’t what is was, and time will tell if this company will be a well respected institution like it had been or if it’ll turn into the next occ and cme.

1.0
Dec 19, 2016

antiquated

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good salary, some very sharp co-workers, decently located in regards to public transportation

Cons

This company rewards mediocrity, the environment is something from the early 80s (we're talking cubicles here!), the environment is not supportive for women or minorities in technology, it is very much 'Wolf of Wall Street' culture - you're either one of the 'good old boys' or you simply do not exist. the CEO calls the environment 'innovative' and is sadly being fed some bologna by upper management that has completely lost touch with their employees and its sad - he can't even see that his employees are laughing at him every single time he uses the word "innovative". There is not a single innovative person or thought in that company. Or if they get someone in who truly has great ideas - the motivation will be SUCKED out of them by the end of 2 years just because it will probably take that long to get even a PoC approval

1.0
Jun 4, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Used to have a good work dynamic where they truly cared about the employees and in return built a system of trust and hard working individuals. All went away when new CEO joined.

Cons

Profit is their only motive now. Total lack of care for employees.

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