Great firm at a bad time - Director CME Group Employee Review

3.0
Jun 22, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Great franchise, with good people, interesting work and an OK work/life balance. Also a great name for your resume. Can get great experience and access to clients. People take your calls when you are at CME. I'm generally pretty happy at least until the last year or so.

Cons

No pay rises or promotion for over a year now and it feels like the CEO has disconnected and is kind of out of touch. Morale not great and so lots of employee turnover as a result. Great firm to work for but my advice would be dont join now, join in a year or two when the CEO has changed and they are back to offering pay rises and promotions.

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5.0
May 11, 2026
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Pros

good pay, interesting work, good people

Cons

very very little work life balance

3.0
May 25, 2026
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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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