Great place to work ! - Software Engineer Criteo Employee Review

5.0
Oct 18, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You might not heard of the company, but their ads are all over the internet. The office maintains a great startup culture without crazy long hours. Resulting superb work life balance. The compensation for engineer is at almost Google/Faceable level, I am not sure why it says only 90k here.

Cons

The stock price fluctuates with Europe stock, which is not doing so well lately..

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Criteo Response
9y
Hello - thank you so much for taking the time to submit a review! Firstly, I would absolutely agree that we need to consciously open up to a more gender-diverse talent pool. This is a huge problem for companies across the Silicon Valley, and definitely for us too. And this doesn't happen by passively waiting for applicants, it needs a deliberate strategy. So PLEASE help in the recruiting process by speaking with the local recruiters about this - and what we can do in targeting local universities etc to help address this problem! Thank you for raising it in the conversation. and most importantly - so happy to hear your positive feedback. We put a lot of effort into growing our offices - esp our Dev Center in Palo Alto - and we want it to continue being an engaging place for our engineers! Best, HR

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

Great environment, great people to work with

Cons

Need to go back to office

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Criteo Response
6d
We're thrilled to receive such positive feedback and to know that you've found a place where you can grow and thrive at Criteo. Thank you for sharing and for your trust all these years. It's great to have you on the team!
2.0
Jan 31, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Smart, hardworking people at the individual contributor level (many of whom are now gone). Little micro-managing, but that’s because everyone’s bandwidth is near 0

Cons

Post–new CEO, the company has descended into complete chaos. There is no transparency around decisions that impact teams and roles. There have been consistent strategy, personnel, and supplier changes with no explanation, accountability, or follow-through. Cons, continued: Employee input and performance do not matter. Decisions feel driven by appeasing BoD and optics rather than results, input and reality. The culture has become a corporate hellscape of: Endless reorganizations with no clear rationale, including layoffs with no reasoning Vague all-hands meetings that avoid real issues, even when directly asked A massive disconnect between the C-suite and day-to-day reality Eroded trust and growing position insecurity Middle managers incentivized to prioritize managing up & executive optics over team advocacy “Return to Office” policy put in place when promised a “Work from Anywhere” position, where the RTO policy differs across employees’ location Little to no growth opportunities despite high performance Under-market average compensation that was justified by locale, “Work from Anywhere”, and flexibility — which was recently rolled back A clear favoritism to those that “talk the talk” vs “performance with numbers”

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