Good place to work, but lots of dead weight. - Anonymous employee CME Group Employee Review

4.0
20 Nov 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits. Great pay. Great PTO. Great Location. Pension (small but most companies don't offer this at all). Plentiful transfer opportunities.

Cons

There are lots of longtime employees who get to keep their jobs simply because they've been there a long time, even if they are totally incompetent. If you end up in a department with one of these people at the top, you are doomed.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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

Bureaucracy and internal politics can sometimes outweigh technical merit. Employees who take ownership or challenge inefficiencies may face delayed recognition, unclear growth paths, and shifting expectations, leading to frustration and disengagement over time.

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