Cboe reviews

3.4

42% would recommend to a friend

(291 total reviews)
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Craig Donohue

21% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Cboe has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 291 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good 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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291 reviews
2.0
May 8, 2026

Fire Craig

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Pros

Years of being a phenomenal place to work. Work/life balance. Decent pay. Good benefits.

Cons

Current CEO and company direction. The past 5 years of work were sold and decommissioned. Layoffs amidst record profits. Craig Donahue has no skin in the game. Does not care about employees

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.

2.0
May 3, 2026

Once great, now toxic

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Pros

Cboe used to be one of the best places to work with an exceptional culture, largely due to the former COO and all-around amazing human being, Chris Isaacson, who unfortunately retired early. Maybe he knew the cuts were coming and didn't want to witness the destruction of one of his greatest accomplishments. We miss you, Chris. The work was fun and challenging, There are interesting technical problems to work on alongside really smart and devoted colleagues. Compensation was generous and above average.

Cons

I've never seen a company's culture fall so fast. In only a year, the new CEO Craig Donohue is turning a once great company into a toxic culture where morale is very low. The smart people will move on to better jobs, and the devoted people will stop caring. Craig has demonstrated again and again that he doesn't care about employees, he only cares about shareholders. The company is making record profits so it's not a case of "difficult decisions had to be made". It's a case of "we're okay with making employees miserable in order to increase our profit margins by 2%". Craig doesn't understand that it was the culture that made Cboe so successful. We worked so hard, we executed so flawlessly, because we believed in the company and the company believed in us. All of that has changed.

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