Avoid working here!! - Anonymous employee CME Group Employee Review

1.0
Oct 27, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Salary Bonus Performance shares WFH - dependent on what team

Cons

Teams are threatened with performance improvement plans Under-resourced in operations Chicago centric, decision making is all based in the US Managers creating empires HR department protects management - issues are rarely resolved Too many priorities / priorities change at a high rate Staff in certain teams are overworked Weekend releases and dev teams are expected to support applications 24/7 while on rota Huge number of highly experienced staff have left the Belfast office this year Roles and responsibilities can be unclear and managers micromanage

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Cons

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