Good mix of people and interesting environment - Anonymous employee CME Group Employee Review

3.0
Jan 24, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits and learning and tools being made available to employees. Location allows easy access to gym and food places.

Cons

Full of old-timers and some of them hardly do any work; double standard in the promotion ranks across departments meaning that some people can just skip ranks because they know the right people.

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Strong engineering culture with exposure to large-scale financial systems, distributed architecture, and production-critical platforms. Good opportunities to learn modern cloud, performance, and reliability engineering.

Cons

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