Awful leadership, incompetent management, very little finance/capital markets knowledge - Anonymous employee CME Group Employee Review

1.0
31 May 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good vacation time and health benefits. Well-known name. Good internship experience as you will learn how to read/understand U.S. public company financial statements.

Cons

Unrealized potential from junior employees because of inflated egos on the senior management side. Leadership on the operations side is completely and utterly incompetent. A very demeaning and frustrating envronment to work in. Junior Managers are absolutely inept and have barely any financial/capital markets knowledge beyond repeating key words, which they may have heard from an even more inept director in a self-fulfilling and meaningless meeting; all as a result of a constant state of fear from senior management. Constant culture of lying to clients out of fear from internal retribution from specific directors; unethical, complete breakdown in communication, hiding/lying/back-stabbing and overall in desperate need of a rigorous cleaning up of management structure.

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