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      Criteo

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      Criteo reviews

      3.9

      73% would recommend to a friend

      (1,433 total reviews)
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      Michael Komasinski

      39% approve of CEO

      46% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Culture & values

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Career opportunities

      3.2

      Senior management

      Criteo has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,433 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Criteo employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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      1K reviews
      2.0
      Mar 18, 2021

      All about numbers

      Account strategist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good benefits Salary ok (but decreasing with higher job opportunities in Barcelona) Leader company in its market Possibility to create side projects and make them grow.

      Cons

      A LOT of nepotism Pretends to trust its employees but high micro managing at the end. Pretends numbers are not important (high hypocrisy) Blackbox even with its employees. The market itself is fishy (online ads in mass). When you think about it, Criteo is this annoying entity pushing you thousands of ads per day and enabling for mass consumption. Although it's all legal (completely), the methods are not great. In depth, Criteo's services just don't serve anyone any good. But, it does work. They make money and you will earn money working there. Just know you will contribute to one of the most indecent internet practice of nowadays. They hire new employees with a higher salary than for the existing ones and they ask those new employees not to divulgate, even lying to them saying it's forbidden to talk about salaries.

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      Criteo Response
      5y
      We'd like to thank you for taking the time to share your experience, although we are very sorry to hear that you feel that you had an overall negative experience. We announced earlier this year that we were in a transformation phase, we are absolutely convinced that in the longer term, us pivoting to a Commerce Media Platform, will expand our addressable market and create new business opportunities as well as internal ones. Concerning the stress that you felt in your management, in all regions, we have put a strong focus on employee wellness with a large offer of Feelgood Initiatives by local Workplace teams, coupled with an offer of mental health support with professionals by an external service provider, we also have reinforced the communication about the importance of taking breaks. We strongly encourage you to reach out to your manager or local PE advisor to get an extended support.
      1.0
      Jan 24, 2020

      Not an innovation company anymore. Make money or make room for somebody who will.

      Machine learning engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - High salary, but a big part of it is indexed on hidden objectives that are only magically revealed when bonus is attributed. - Huge cluster and computing power, which is downside too as adding features is prioritary compared to writing clean and efficient code. - Very knowledgeable and great colleagues. - Possibility to attend conferences although they are adding more and more validation layers upon this.

      Cons

      - Management is hectic. Criteo has no vision and only reacts last minute to the problems when they are unavoidable. Innovative projects are launched, ran, and killed for no reason one week before going to prod. - Politics is everything at Criteo. Never ever get in trouble with higher management or your career is dead, you may even get fired. The internal rewarding program for exceptional performance "spot awards" should be renamed "friend awards" given how obvious are the relationships between the winners and the management. - Dev lead have no manager abilities and since they have been asked to have numbers, they are pressuring devs like crazy, imposing their decisions, micro managing, harassing.

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      Criteo Response
      5y
      Thanks for sharing a little about your experience working at Criteo. We agree that the people at Criteo are wonderful which is why we strive to make the employee experience a great one. We work hard to ensure those in our manager roles have the right training to be effective leaders, able to assess performance of our employees in a fair and consistent way through our evolving Perform & Develop approach. We have a strong focus on the creation of a coaching and development culture and where transitions occur, they are handled with fairness and integrity. Under our CEO, Megan Clarken, we are guided by our new strategy, mission and values, to develop our culture and put the customer at the centre of everything we do.
      2.0
      Jan 22, 2020

      Nice people, on a sinking ship!

      Account strategist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      - Nice people, some good events

      Cons

      - insanely pushy management - sometimes pushing solutions that are not for client-benefit, rather only benefitial for the teamlead's or manager's benefit - micro-management at its best - heavy workload (very large portfolios) - bad administration - career opportunities: yes, if your French! - dying business (model) Honestly, it's a sign if young talent keeps leaving the company and wanting out asap.

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      Criteo Response
      5y
      Thank you for taking the time to give your feedback on your experience. We work to assess performance of our employees in a fair and consistent way through our evolving Perform & Develop approach, and as we assess internal promotions, as well as appointments to new roles – we work to appoint the right candidate for any given role, taking into account all strands of diversity. To retain our position as a leader in technology advertising solutions, we’re a target driven business, but we work to support every team member in achieving or even over-achieving their objectives. As we move through a transition to a multi-product Company we’re shifting to become more customer centric, and we know we have strides to make here, and our new strategy puts the Customer at the centre of that.
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