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Intercontinental Exchange

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Awful Experience - Staff Accountant Intercontinental Exchange Employee Review

1.0
23 Feb 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Hybrid work schedule and some nice coworkers.

Cons

There are a lot. For one, the accounting team isn't actually in the beautiful main building in Atlanta. Of course they don't tell any of the new employees this, but you only find out on the very first day when you show up to work. Instead, you are in a old concrete building off to the side of the main building with rows of cubicles and little to no natural sunlight (extremely damaging to mental health). To compensate they offer "free breakfast and lunch" which is just delivered cold food from the main building cafeteria. Management provides little to no training. All of the training for my tasks was given by the other accountants. While these accountants are extremely nice people, it is not their job to be good teachers or trainers. Some of them were extremely bad at explaining their tasks, especially the ins and outs. Managers provide zero effort to provide more assistance to employees struggling early on in their position. They would rather fire you than take any extra time to work with you on ways to improve, regardless of how eager you are to learn, grow, and succeed. You are expendable and can be let go at any time if your work is not up to par with their standards. I was fired after only 4 months, randomly out of nowhere, without given any chance to improve and grow and develop as a young professional. I was fired over zoom, and both HR as well as my manager kept their cameras off the entire time. I work with you every day for almost 5 months and you don't have the human decency to look at me while you are firing me? I think that says enough about management. Don't expect any sort of formal training or guidance. You are mostly on your own, and asking coworkers for help is frowned upon by management.

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5.0
26 May 2026
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Pros

A very distinct culture of gritty, brilliant individuals. Very generous compensation. Lean org structure with access to the senior most leaders.

Cons

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2.0
8 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company has good benefits and, for now, free breakfast and lunch in one building. Nice gym in HQ.

Cons

The company is very inflexible and absolutely does not tolerate remote work in any capacity. Even if you are the only member of your team in the office and could easily be remote, you will be required to be in office to take Zoom calls. In general this matches with the company's overbearing culture and "eye of sauron"- like micromanagement. Some higher executives work remotely, but they have sweetheart deals that don't apply to everyone, so if you need flexibility look elsewhere. Atlanta, even in difficult economic times, still has plenty of competition that is much more flexible than ICE. The company location is surrounded by nothing, so while JP Morgan can mandate RTO in their accessible Manhattan office, the Atlanta workers don't have it so rosy. If the company would relent on in-office it would definitely improve, but the fact that they don't leads to high turn-over and is why so many H-1Bs are present: they can't leave as easily. The company aggressively controls your time with a badge dashboard so one day you will get an email out of the blue asking you about it.

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