Is CME Group a good company to work for?

CME Group has an overall rating of 3.9 out of 5, based on over 1,723 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 74% of employees would recommend working at CME Group to a friend and 80% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about CME Group have been left by employees working as Intern , Software Engineer(Internship) and Intern - Hourly .

Does CME Group pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, CME Group employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.0 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at CME Group. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at CME Group?

74% of CME Group employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated CME Group 3.9 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.0 for culture and values and 3.5 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at CME Group?

Software Engineer (81) , Intern (61) , Senior Software Engineer (54) , Director (47) , Manager (33) , Analyst (25) , Software Engineer(Internship) (22) , Business Analyst (14) , Intern - Hourly (14) , Software Developer (14) , Consultant (13) , Executive Director (13) , Lead Software Engineer (13) , QA Analyst (12) , Product Manager (11)

What are the pros of working at CME Group according to real employee reviews?

"great people to work with" ((in 149 reviews)); "good benefits in terms of health insurance and retirement plans" ((in 143 reviews)); "Good work life balance with and comfortable pay for being in Chicago." ((in 127 reviews)); "good culture and events such as the runs" ((in 74 reviews)); "Pay is good compared to banks but not at all compared to tech firms" ((in 68 reviews))

What are the cons of working at CME Group according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management, and no accountability." ((in 63 reviews)); "managers are promoted because they are great at their jobs and have industry expertise however, they receive no guidance on how to treat the staff they are responsible for." ((in 32 reviews)); "Uninspiring and inauthentic senior management more concerned with their golden handcuffs than their people and challenging the status quo." ((in 26 reviews)); "Too much bureaucracy, difficult upper management that are very outdated in their view of work." ((in 14 reviews)); "Layoffs are frequent." ((in 14 reviews))

What are employees saying about CME Group layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about CME Group layoffs and their outlook for job security at CME Group in 2026.

CME Group reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(1,322 total reviews)

Terry Duffy

78% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.0

Culture & values

4.0

Compensation and benefits

3.9

Work/Life balance

3.8

Diversity & inclusion

3.5

Senior management

3.5

Career opportunities

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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1K reviews

1.0

Mar 29, 2017

Political and incompetent IT management team.

Senior software engineer

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CEO approval

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Pros

Excellent Health care Benefits. Great WFH policy if you work for a descent manager. Lots of Smart people get hired from intern programs. It's a good place to get a handle on financial technologies

Cons

The most political and completely out of touch of technology organization led by clueless and delusional leaders at the top. everyone is afraid to speak their mind as folks who have in the past 3 years get pushed out. The technology leaders "vision" is a joke. Its simply this, outsource everything and let someone else deal with the consequences later. Technology is slowww and "new" ideas other companies did 6-10 years ago. No way to get ahead unless you are great at pretending these guys are awesome or you grew up in India. Women and minorities are basically nonexistent in IT at manager levels and above. Wouldn't have brought it up but They consistently talk diversity but that's just to pretend it exists

CME Group Response

9y

We’re sorry to hear you’re feeling this way. That’s not the IT organization we’ve come to know and many of your observations do not reflect the experiences of the majority of our employees. Our Employee Network Group (ENG) program is one of many initiatives aimed at supporting diversity, inclusion and professional development in the workplace. We currently have seven ENGs focused on meeting the needs of our diverse workforce including female, black, Hispanic and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees. We also continue to take the pulse of our employees through our bi-annual engagement survey, with the last company-wide survey occurring in 2015 and the next one scheduled for later this summer. That said, we take your feedback seriously. If you continue to experience the environment you’ve described, we encourage you to reach out via email to Human Resources to raise your concerns.

3.0

Apr 9, 2019

The Tech Division is Hemorrhaging

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

It’s difficult to find a better company if you just want to coast to retirement: new hires start at 23 days PTO, most managers have a liberal WFH policy, there’s a pension, etc. Stability. CME has exclusive rights to list some of the world’s most popular financial derivatives and lobbies aggressively for its interests. Great exit opportunities in finance and tech.

Cons

Demoralizing amount of red-tape. There is little financial incentive to over-perform. Target bonuses are small for the industry and little separates the highest and lowest performers, compensation-wise. Company-wide architectural decisions are made by the least qualified/most politically-connected, leading to brittle and unresilient systems. The tech division is rapidly turning over FTEs. The most motivated/talented engineers have been flocking to HFT and BigTech for a few years, and are subsequently backfilled with contractors and fresh college hires. This seems to be the conscious strategy going forward; let attrition take its course and hire armies of cheap foreign contractors to be trained by the one or two remaining holdouts.

1.0

Feb 7, 2019

Do not work here to get ahead

Technical leader

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good name, wealthy, stable, flexible

Cons

Aggressive, discriminatory, bad leadership, if you bark the loudest and rule by fear, you are a shoe-in.

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