Great company with growth potential, if you can navigate internal politics and some egos. - Anonymous employee CME Group Employee Review

4.0
Jan 21, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Smart people (mostly), industry is evolving and challenging, have great products and services, the largest exchange but still has growth mentality, and always new things to learn (products, customers, technology, etc.)

Cons

Internal politics, over-processed for not that large of a company (2700 people acting like a 15,000 people firm sometimes), management not always aligned with each other, silos in work approach despite strides to (en)force collaboration.

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Cons

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Pros

- Friendly working environment. - Slow-paced and relaxed. - Opportunity to work on high-impact financial software. Quite useful if you want to get into a trading firm later on.

Cons

- Limited skill growth capability (tools are severely locked down, etc) - Work life balance can be shaky sometimes since systems fail after 5pm, weekend, etc. - Documentation is terribly organized. - Not enough focus on engineering culture. Overall probably not the best place to stick around if you like exploring new skills, building from the ground up, taking ownership etc.

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