CME Group reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(1,322 total reviews)
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Terry Duffy

78% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

CME Group has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,322 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CME Group 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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2.0
Aug 11, 2016

Wake up and smell the change

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Growing business in a changing and challenging industry. Exciting industry learning opportunities. The company has many very smart and devoted employees.

Cons

There have been a lot of changes in the past couple of years that indicate that employees are no longer valued. The politics, red tape, and low morale have created a very negative environment to work in and senior management either is not aware or does not care.

4.0
Sep 24, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fast-paced, and occasionally intense. A lot of exposure to many different departments within the company. Very smart people working with you that you can learn a lot from. People are usually easy to get along with here.

Cons

Questionable direction of the company with the offshoring of resources. CME may be shooting itself in the foot as they offload more and more of their experienced US-based employees. Over the past 12 months we've seen a huge reduction in personnel but the workload remains the same -- or heavier. That may look great on paper to the shareholders (in fact our stock price goes up after each series of layoffs) and that we appear more efficient, but it's at the cost of more work and less life in terms work-life balance. In the long run, it's not sustainable, even with the India branch coming up to speed (by end of 2016).

1.0
May 24, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

(1) Paid time off (2) Very low quality standards make working quite easy (3) Education reimbursement benefits (4) They have a virtual monopoly on parts of the futures and options markets

Cons

(1) There are very few competent people working here. Most of the best staff leave within six months to a year after joining. (2) Unabashed favoritism, nepotism, and racism (3) Extreme amounts of bureaucracy to the point where real work almost never gets done (4) Very poor management; I have never seen it this bad before (5) There is no culture to speak of; hypocrisy and double talk are the norm of management (6) Employees that do not go along with some of these issues are often harasses and retaliated against

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