CME Group Interview Questions

8 total interview insight submissions

Interview Experience (86%)

The Interview Experience is a score from 1 star (very negative) to 5 stars (very positive) generated based on the Interview Insights at this company.

The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. If you hover over the various sections of the donut, you will see the % breakdown of each score given.

The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few interview insights). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire dataset.

3.9
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Interview Difficulty (81%)

The Interview Difficulty is a score ranging from very difficult (red) to very easy (green) generated based on the Interview Insights at this company.

The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. The higher the number, the more difficult the interviews on average. If you hover over the various sections of the doughnut, you will see the % breakdown of each score given.

The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few interview insights). Simply put, as a company gets more insights, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire data set.

2.8
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% Interns - FT Offers (87%)

The % of Interns Getting a Full Time Offer chart is meant to provide a realistic estimate of the hiring practices of the company based on the reviews at this company.

The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. If you hover over the various sections of the doughnut, you will see the % breakdown of each score given.

The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few reviews). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to the simple company average and away from the average of the entire data set.

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Interviews at CME Group

YearPositionLocationGroup/DivisionExperienceDifficulty
2018Sales AnalystLondonTradingVery PositiveAverage
2018Corporate Strategy Summer InternChicagoConsultingPositiveEasy
2018Market Risk AnalystChicagoRiskNeutralAverage
2017Data EngineerChicagoSales and TradingNeutralAverage
2017Market risk analyst internChicagoRisk ManagementVery PositiveAverage
2017CME InternNew YorkRisk ManagementPositiveAverage
2014Software EngineerChicagoN/ANeutralAverage
2012Strategy AnalystChicagoGeneralistPositiveEasy

Sales Analyst Interview - Trading

Anonymous employee in London

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Recruiter

Length of Process

1-2 months
Interviewed: June 2018 Date Submitted: Dec 01, 2022

Application

Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview

Interview

I had an initial phone call screen with a recruiter who passed along my resume to the hiring manager. I had my first round interview with the hiring manager via zoom which consisted of behavioural questions as well technical questions where I had to highlight my previous experience and how they tied into the role. Techinical questions were primarily about FX knowledge as well as some probability brain teasers. This was the hardest stage because my next conversations were with the executive and managing directors separately. These stages were mostly a cultural fit assessment

Interview Questions

I was asked about daily FX volumes in the BIS survey. The fx global code and questions regarding the movement towards 0 hold times in FX
Sample Answer

Corporate Strategy Summer Intern Interview - Consulting

Anonymous employee in Chicago

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

1-2 months
Interviewed: March 2018 Date Submitted: Sep 25, 2018

Application

Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Drug Test
Background Check

Interview

I met the hiring manager at the career fair in the spring semester, which is quite late for a summer internship. Heard back from the hiring manager and had a phone interview. All behavioral questions. Then the final round is a skype interview with ED of that department and the hiring manager. Two consulting case to check your thought process and a bunch of fit questions.

Interview Questions

What would you do if I give you an elephant that you're not allowed to sell it or give it to anyone else?
Suppose a specific business line in CME is declining, what's your strategy to promote this business?


There was really not that many hard questions. Really awesome and cool interviewers.
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Market Risk Analyst Interview - Risk

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

Employee Referral

Length of Process

1-2 months
Interviewed: April 2018 Date Submitted: May 24, 2018

Application

Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview

Interview

I got an email about the position and they requested a phone interview. After that it took a couple weeks until I was given an interview. After that I got a response about 2-3 weeks later.

Interview Questions

How many cookies did the girl scout that's outside the building sell today?
So upon entering the building there were some girl scouts inside. During the interview the interviewer asked how many girl scout cookies do I think that they sold. He emphasized that the answer isn't important, but the way you get to your answer.
Can you draw an option call?
This wasn't too difficult, but I messed up because I drew it like the P/L theoretical from the tasyworks platform. He wanted straight lines not curved ones.
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Data Engineer Interview - Sales and Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

Employee Referral

Length of Process

1-2 months
Interviewed: May 2017 Date Submitted: Jan 22, 2018

Application

Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test

Interview

Re feral followed by phone screen and coding assessment. After the coding assessment, I was declined and did not get the job.

Interview Questions

Take home coding test that involved parsing large amounts of data (3GB) using a spark language of your choice. Before parsing the data, they also instructed you to spin up your own AWS EMR infrastructure that had spark. In addition to the EMR infrastructure, you had to use a pem key to create the instance and you had to setup the credentials necessary to login to the infrastructure and perform calculations. All spark code had to be written and executed on the EMR. Although the test was "take home" you were instructed to finish in 2 days.
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Market risk analyst intern Interview - Risk Management

Anonymous employee in Chicago

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

1-2 months
Interviewed: July 2017 Date Submitted: Nov 14, 2017

Application

Phone Interview
Group Interview
Skills Test
Personality Test
Drug Test
Background Check

Interview

First there was a phone call - all fit questions.
One on one with an analyst in person - a little more technical then the phone but not bad. Asked questions about market derivatives, counter party risk(margin), and computer skills.
Final round was two senior managers in person - more technical; talked more in depth about my knowledge of trading strategies.

Interview Questions

None - It was pretty straight forward. They did ask some brain teasers though which i will add. If you are going into the derivatives sector and don't know what a derivative is then you probably should research it on your own time.

A.) 10 foot rope ladder hangs over the side of a boat with the bottom rung on the surface of the water. The rungs are one foot apart, and the tide goes up at the rate of 6 inches per hour. How long will it be until three rungs are covered?

Another question I don't hear too often:

B.)How did you prep for this interview?

C.) What is your favorite product on our slate and why?
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CME Intern Interview - Risk Management

Anonymous employee in New York

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

2-3 months
Interviewed: May 2017 Date Submitted: Oct 24, 2017

Application

1 on 1 Interview

Interview

I had an interview with each member of the team, 1 to 1, around 45 min with each one. They asked brain teasers and finance related questions (pricing options, delta). Throw an egg from building, when does it survive

Interview Questions

How would you price a contract of CME? Delta of a stock? Explain VaR for your grandma. If you throw an egg from a building and there is a certain point where it does not break, which is the minimum number of throws that you need to find that breakpoint. Why do I want the job without having a good idea of what they were doing because the job post did not have enough information. If you have flowers in a pond and they duplicate everyday, if you observe the pond for 10 days, on which day do the flowers cover one half of the pond?
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Software Engineer Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: 2014 Date Submitted: Mar 16, 2015

Application

Phone Interview

Interview

questions:
How can you reduce the user's perception of waiting when some functions take a lot of time?
Have you ever seen OO go bad? What happened? What elements of OO design are most prone to abuse and misuse? What are some ways to prevent these mishaps?
How can you debug a system in a production environment, while it is being used?
What is the role of interfaces in design?

Interview Questions

What is the role of interfaces in design?
How do you make sure that your code can handle different kinds of error situations?
What kinds of diagrams have you used in designing parts of an architecture, or a technical design?
Can you name any differences between object-oriented design and component-based design?
Estimate how long it would take to sort 1 trillion numbers.
Write a function that takes two strings as arguments and returns a string containing only the characters found in both strings. Have them write 2 versions – one that is O(n) and one that is O(n^2)
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Strategy Analyst Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

1-2 months
Interviewed: May 2012 Date Submitted: May 26, 2014

Application

Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview

Interview

I applied via my school's career center. I had networked pretty well with the previous two years of analysts that went to my school. The process consisted of two sets of interviews, one on campus and the other at the Chicago office. The first round interview with HR was a breeze if you did any research on what CME does and any major industry trends. The next round they bring you in for about 6 1-1 interviews. They are entirely fit. Some people are dicks other people couldn't be nicer. The overall questions centered around how much you could see your self running the operations of CME. I would grade the interview as easy because no hard questions were asked, however they will cut to the chase and can judge how interested in their operations you are.

Interview Questions

Talk to me about the products that CME offers and what you are most interested in. -- Know the tried and true products backwards and forwards. Any strange or exotic products can be emphasized, but try not to only focus on them.
Tell me about a time where you had to make an uncomfortable decision in a leadership role. I spoke about a time where I had to kick a member of my team out of the group for not doing any work. Pretty typical fit question.
Sample Answer