Fast growing but still suffering from its mutualized company roots - Anonymous employee CME Group Employee Review

3.0
Nov 4, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

CME Group is a financially successful company. It is one of the main actors in the international derivatives financial markets industry. It is growing in several dimensions: Futures and Options on Futures trading, Electronic Trading, OTC markets clearing, Globalization through exchange partnerships, which should bring interesting projects for coming years.

Cons

CME Group has a very deep hierarchical organization which leads to a lot of politics, turf battles bringing a lot inefficiencies, unflexibilities, difficulty to have important decisions made.

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Cons

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