Great place to vacation - Anonymous employee CME Group Employee Review

2.0
Dec 31, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Not much work, good benefits,

Cons

Culture, politics, pay, career progression non existent. CME is a very strange place. In Chicago getting a job here is like you hit the lottery. It's very revered for some reason. Other cities, not so much. It's a great place to hide and not do any or very little work. You can get by for over 5 years doing nothing. There is zero motivation to out perform goals as there is no reward financially for doing so. You will get paid the same regardless so why bother? Nothing is very well thought out here....products are put to market half baked with no support plan and then everyone points fingers at who is going to handle. If you don't mind getting paid less than market value for barely any work, this is the place for you...i mean, do you really deserve more money for no work?

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