Great Company, Shame About The Management - Lead Software Engineer CME Group Employee Review

4.0
10 Apr 2022
Recommend
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Pros

CME is a market leader in the derivative space, so the work seems to be abundant plus the company is working towards becoming a cloud native exchange which is great if your an engineer who's keen to learn.

Cons

Weekend deployments even for non live systems, it's quite moronic and taxing on engineering staff. Management have severely damaged the Belfast office with bad decisions over the last 2 years including hire and promotion freezes when everyone else in Belfast was hiring. You will now find a handful of people managing vast sways of applications.

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5.0
11 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

good pay, interesting work, good people

Cons

very very little work life balance

3.0
12 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Friendly working environment. - Slow-paced and relaxed. - Opportunity to work on high-impact financial software. Quite useful if you want to get into a trading firm later on.

Cons

- Limited skill growth capability (tools are severely locked down, etc) - Work life balance can be shaky sometimes since systems fail after 5pm, weekend, etc. - Documentation is terribly organized. - Not enough focus on engineering culture. Overall probably not the best place to stick around if you like exploring new skills, building from the ground up, taking ownership etc.

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