Criteo reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(1,431 total reviews)
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Michael Komasinski

39% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Criteo has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,431 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
1.0
Jan 24, 2020
Recommend
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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
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.
1.0
Jan 14, 2020

toxic atmosphere, worst place ever

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

potential (!) to earn some good money, if you over-perform

Cons

literally everything else. The daily pressure is incredibly high, they are kicking people out from one second to the next every single week. Managers do not care about anything else but their own bonus. Complaints are not being taken serious. Chaotic and competitive.

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Criteo Response
5y
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience at Criteo. We continue to work on developing our culture and to get qualitative and quantitative feedback from our team members through listening sessions, regular engagement and manager surveys to understand how our team members feel. We strive to create tangible action plans to continue to improve on the employee experience. We believe that our team members are more than just a number, and at the heart of what we do. We’re sorry to hear this wasn’t your experience with us. We are a target driven business, but we work to support our team members in achieving their objectives in a balanced way. We work to assess performance of our employees in a fair and consistent way and where transitions occur, we aim to do so with fairness and integrity.
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