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      Criteo Machine Learning Engineer reviews

      3.9

      81% would recommend to a friend

      (2 total reviews)
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      Michael Komasinski

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      5.0

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      4.9

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      4.8

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      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.0

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      2 reviews
      4.0
      Sep 25, 2020

      Nice company with some structural inefficiencies

      Machine learning engineer
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      Pros

      Criteo is a fine place to work, I'm fairly confident it is the best tech company to work for in France. Criteo's culture is very performance driven, and engineers apply all the best practices in the field. Criteo also has a lot data to work with, which is a data scientist and machine learning practitioner's dream. Technologies used are fairly top notch, Criteo has its own data centers, its own SRE and Infra departments, and many tools to ease the development and deployment processes that rival those of cloud platforms.

      Cons

      The company is somewhat stuck in a limbo between a small startup and a big tech company. It's engineering department is concentrated in France (since it's SF branch has closed), which makes it rather close-minded and less open to the adoption of new and state-of-the-art technologies. The development processes are fairly slow moving, which have made the company fail to diversify its product portfolio in recent years (although it's going a bit better lately). There are several structural inefficiencies, starting from a very big pile of technical debt, that you need to circumvent and adapt to in order to make new products and produce value (it takes effort but it's possible).

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      Criteo Response
      5y
      Thank you for sharing your thoughts. We always like to hear a balanced point of view. Your feedback provides us with an opportunity to identify potential areas for improvement. We hope you also took advantage of our employee engagement survey to provide any additional feedback. We value your contribution and continued commitment to Criteo.
      1.0
      Jan 24, 2020

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

      Machine learning engineer
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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.
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