CME Group reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(1,325 total reviews)
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Terry Duffy

78% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

CME Group has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,325 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
Jun 21, 2020
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Pros

excellent exposure to opportunities to create new products and partnerships globally

Cons

extremely political environment, not a meritocracy, HR toothless

1.0
Jun 19, 2020
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Pros

Strong Business Lines Manager who know their stuff and keep this business moving forward

Cons

Dismal HR, who do lip service to best practices but are there to spy on behalf of management. Raising any attention to malpractices, while “encouraged” is just a trap. There is no long term strategy for the data business, just looking to live quarter to quarter. Senior Mgmt constantly “empowers” the employees by choking them for strategic ideas and implementation, but says outright no to any new business initiatives or cases. Some excellent and talent individuals are suffocated by management , who take credit for any successes and lay blame otherwise. People from various teams regularly disappeared without explanation, especially just before their 2 years of service were over (just before any employment rights kick in). Another common approach was to advertise position as Director and then lower the titles to manager at the interview or just before the contract signing stage, stating that there is no difference in the packages when clearly bonuses differ by title as her the HR handbook. They hire talented and diverse people but suppress them and allow a few rotten apples to run the show. I was told by my boss to take credit of other regional teams and present their findings to senior management as mine - literally told “to learn to be crafty” My boss constantly plotted against other people and openly bragged about playing chess moves while others play checkers. I could go on and on but you get the picture. Their slogan should be “where futures are destroyed” not “where futures are made”. Toxic corporate culture at its worst ....

4.0
Jun 11, 2020

Great company but slow moving

Anonymous employee
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Pros

CME is one of the industry giants. If you are at all interested in exchange and clearing business this is one of the most interesting places to be. Great place to learn about the business and work with different technologies. Many dedicated, hard working, and knowledgeable people.

Cons

While company has very good track record executing on large scale projects its record on smaller initiatives is far from stellar. Things that should take days often take months. Decision making process is slow and many projects take long time to complete because of lack of commitment. Company is still very siloed.

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