CME Group is a great place to work. - Systems Engineer CME Group Employee Review

5.0
2 Oct 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great opportunity for growth. Smart people on staff. Good direction of the company. Very strong upper management. The overall ability of this company is astounding. There should be a significant amount of growth with this company and it should continue to be strong. Large impact projects move very quickly.

Cons

Departments are siloed both internally and externally. Communication is not the best inter-departmentally. With the size of the company being what it is one would think the company would be much more nimble than it currently is. It takes a long time to get simple little things completed unlike the large impact project.

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5.0
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CEO approval
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Pros

good pay, interesting work, good people

Cons

very very little work life balance

3.0
25 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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