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Intercontinental Exchange

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Intercontinental Exchange reviews

3.3

49% would recommend to a friend

(1,944 total reviews)
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Jeffrey C. Sprecher

56% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Intercontinental Exchange has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,944 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Intercontinental Exchange employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financeiro industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
4.0
Aug 6, 2015

Keep it Real

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people to work with in a corporate structure, good benefits, great pay (competitors cannot beat ICE in this matter), tuition reimbursement, leading edge technology, interesting projects, casual work environment. They invest in their employees. Management is aware of structural/cultural problems and working to change them. This may involve layoffs (as a result of newly acquired NYSE), which had caused a lot of negative feedback towards ICE. They did get rid of tremendous amount of deadwood who were tied to terrible bosses, and were protected. This gives the existing team a lot of flexibility in terms of process improvement and structure. ICE is very supportive if you want to improve yourself.

Cons

Lack of clear work priorities, hence most projects seem to go over schedule. When work falls between different teams there is often confusion and disagreement as to who is supposed to own the work. Now that there are a bunch of layoffs, hoping for process improvement.

1.0
Apr 24, 2015

It started well then NYSE happened

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Compensation is pretty good and the work life balance is decent enough. My department *was* great to work in, the people were (and largely still are) great to work with, and things were well run until a NYSE person was promoted ahead of the ICE manager of my department. All of that was before ICE was infected by NYSE's people and culture.

Cons

The company's culture has been completely replaced by that of NYSE and that is disastrous. ICE may have bought NYSE, but it very much seem like it's the other way around. Since a NYSE person was promoted ahead of my manager we have been micromanaged and our jobs are made much harder by this. The senior ICE management has allowed the former NYSE personnel to be promoted ahead of their own people and this has caused a great deal of resentment among the long term employees of ICE. IT policies have changed as well and the NYSE policy of locking down employee workstations to the point to where it makes getting anything done to be tedious and everyone's jobs to be far more difficult than they need to be has become the new norm. All of this has brought me to the point where I'm so considering leaving the company that I am actively looking for a new job. Should one come along that matches the compensation I'm getting at ICE I will promptly give my 2 weeks notice as many other ICE employees have done in the last several months.

5.0
Feb 7, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The building is very modern. All glass walls. Breakfast pantry with snacks, coffee, tea. Good benefits, everyone gets stock offered that vests over 3 years. Compliance can be interesting at times. You can learn a lot about the various levels of the trading world. Great hours, good people. Good place to have on your resume. Company runs lean and mean.

Cons

The work can get boring. Not very challenging. They don't pay as well as a fund, bank or FCM would. Upper management doesn't pay much attention to Regulation staff because it's not a profit center.

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