CME Group Reviews

Pros

Work/life balance Good salary, bonus and benefits package

Cons

Can't think of any right now!

Pros

Money, people, market share, profitability

Cons

Travel, travel, travel...plus very US centric

Advice to Management

Try to build some loyalty for your employees and respect them a bit more

Pros

Good salary Great benefits Bonus Holidays Central office location

Cons

Favouritism among staff, same folk getting the higher bonuses, spot awards & shares. Red tape & bureaucracy. Less and less autonomy. Micro management. Uninspiring Senior management who spout same rhetoric at every meeting no matter the project. Was a great office to work in but the culture eroded and turned toxic by the Senior Management former Citi ‘clique’. A lot of extremely good & talented... staff leaving/left due to many of above reasons. Boast of the great promotion opportunities yet most people achieving higher grades or positions do so via internal job applications. This is not promotion.

Advice to Management

Senior management of Belfast office either need to change their ways & management styles or be replaced. There’s a common denominator in the reason many quality, experienced staff are leaving. Things are that bad they have had to plant a fake review on this site, see ‘Belfast’s Best kept Secret’ review earlier in 2019. Show staff more respect & trust. You may find this comes right back at you. Do not pick... on or fault staff over petty issues when management behave themselves in the most unprofessional manner in meetings, acting the unruly school boy with head in arms on table yawning quite audibly whilst staff are presenting or demonstrating. Very rude! Bring some fun back to the office. Treat staff as what they are, experienced, talented, professional adults and not school children.

Pros

CME Group has a team culture, professional staff and a good work-life balance.

Cons

Very conservative company and although thorough in their analysis, very slow in taking decisions.

Advice to Management

Increase the speed of taking decisions in order not to miss out on time-sensitive opportunities.

Pros

Decent pay and benefits +company shares scheme

Cons

-Horrible office culture. - Highly political. -What many people mention about HR and management is sadly true. Management own HR and they side with them at the expense of the employees.

Advice to Management

Stop trying to appear good to your bosses, tearing tech teams down in the process.

Pros

If you find the right team there are some good colleagues.

Cons

Very political and bureaucratic with poor senior management.

Pros

Salary Bonus Performance shares WFH - dependent on what team

Cons

Teams are threatened with performance improvement plans Under-resourced in operations Chicago centric, decision making is all based in the US Managers creating empires HR department protects management - issues are rarely resolved Too many priorities / priorities change at a high rate Staff in certain teams are overworked Weekend releases and dev teams are expected to support applications 24/7 while on... rota Huge number of highly experienced staff have left the Belfast office this year Roles and responsibilities can be unclear and managers micromanage

Advice to Management

Senior management really need to assess the leadership within the Belfast office. Staff are hooked into extremely well paid jobs and bonuses but hugely dissatisfied with how management treat them. They’ve lost extremely talented employees over the last year due to the cons listed above. There is a great lack of trust in management HR needs to improve on management training and resolving issues. It appears that... management have the upper hand when it comes to HR issues and they’ve lost the power to actively resolve these. Limited career progression for certain roles

Pros

work life balance, corporate culture

Cons

bureaucracy, things take time to change