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      Criteo

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      Criteo reviews

      3.9

      73% would recommend to a friend

      (1,427 total reviews)
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      Michael Komasinski

      41% approve of CEO

      49% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Culture & values

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.2

      Senior management

      Criteo has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,427 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      Reviews by job title

      1K reviews
      1.0
      Apr 12, 2021

      Dissapoitment

      Account executive
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      -Recruitment Process is professional -International environment -Salary is OK for Barcelona

      Cons

      -Everything is only number-oriented... You are your target, only. You are not treated more than it. -Overachievers are punished. How? capping, changing compensation plan within the quarter. -Management level is not human-centric at all... Focusing only on cost-saving, no promotion cycles anymore, offices are still closed for more than a year, etc... -No coaching & career development patch & customized training for employees -Leaders are not visionary. There is miscommunication in so many parts of the company. You can't learn anything from your leader for your personal growth. -Listening sessions are useless. Your voice is not heard within the company if you are not at the mid-level. -I won't talk about the Criteo products deeply, but the all industry in danger right now. -Everything is going worse day by day...

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      Criteo Response
      3y
      Thanks for taking the time to leave your review. ​ We believe that everyone at Criteo bring their unique talent and experience into work, encouraging Criteos to share their stories, whereas on the Criteo Blog or during specific internal events.​ Offices have stayed closed as long as we weren't sure this was 100% safe for our employees to return: right from the beginning of COVID we implemented a partnership with external mental health professionals, including 5 sponsored psychological sessions, to support Criteos for who the remote situation was particularly hard to deal with. ​ We are sorry to hear that you felt treated like a number. It's really far from the experience we want to provide to our employees. We hope you are well and that you found the right place for you now. ​
      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.
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