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      Unimpressive Sr. Management and Many Incompetent Employees - Anonymous employee CME Group Employee Review

      1.0
      Mar 1, 2017
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Great business model that is highly profitable - hard for the under-performers (and there are many of them) to screw things up

      Cons

      Company/management seems to value industry knowledge versus competency. Few folks are held accountable to actually get things done and when initiatives fail, which they often times do, the leaders who were on the hook to deliver are given more responsibility and get to fail on even larger initiatives. If this company had to actually work to make money they would be out of business quickly.

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      CME Group Response
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      We appreciate your feedback, and are sorry to hear you had a negative experience. While we wish you had a different, more positive experience, we are happy to report that this is not a common theme we hear, or the company culture we’ve come to know. In our most recent engagement pulse survey, the vast majority of employees expressed confidence in our senior leadership. While this is a strong showing, we are always looking at ways to do even better.

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      5.0
      May 11, 2026
      Manager
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      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      good pay, interesting work, good people

      Cons

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      3.0
      May 25, 2026
      Software engineer
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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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