Criteo reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(1,427 total reviews)
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Michael Komasinski

43% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

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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1.0
Oct 31, 2019

Never judge a book by its cover...

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Pros

Very cool working environment - events - day to day workplace experiences; Top work-life balance, not a lot of pressure; Pay is above market level, which gets people to stay and not really question themselves on how they perform and on how they can improve; Brilliant minds from all over the world but also....

Cons

...a toxic culture that has quickly spread thanks to low motivated and/or frustrated people that have been there for years and do not want/like to be challenged and to step out of their little comfort zone; Close to no meritocracy, and lots (lots) of politics; Company culture isn't clear and doesn't correspond to what is being displayed on the marketing / employer branding side - rarely will you meet that much close-mindedness; Management is highly questionable - you begin to wonder for some if they have been trained or guided to embrace those roles

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Criteo Response
6y
Thank you for sharing your thoughts about your experience working at Criteo. Hopefully you have had a chance to read our recent communications about improvements to our performance management process aimed at ensuring a fair measure of performance. The appointment of our new CEO, Megan Clarken, provides the ‘shake-up’ you call for and our new company values, developed using a ‘bottom-up’ approach, will be launched early in 2020. We are building a refreshed identity and renewed determination to be the leading advertising platform for the open internet and, even more importantly, an employer of choice. Denis Collin, EVP People
2.0
Sep 7, 2018

good salary/ bad management

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Pros

-quite good salary and benefits

Cons

-very unprofessional management that goes completely unchecked -the promotion path is very unclear, favourites are being promoted or people who stayed the longest. Most of the managers were moved from London office, they are there the longest but very often skills are missing -internal communication in the company is very bad -more and more juniors are being hired, as they are easier to manage -all in all is a one product company, after 6 months you stop learning

1.0
Aug 16, 2021

STAY AWAY

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Pros

Work from home and that is just about it here

Cons

- The incompetence of Senior management is staggering on the Ops team over in Europe. They have little to no knowledge of the teams underneath them, and quite frankly it is a bit embarrassing. Senior Management members never actually leave, they just move to different departments and spread the toxicity. - If you want to work here, avoid anything OPS related - While in a meeting in 2019, got laughed at by a senior management member when asked about career paths for Operations teams (FYI, there is none). Turns out they actually own their own french village (shocking). - Middle management on commercial teams is very cliquey, unprofessional, and make it very clear that they were promoted due to favoritism. - Salary/ compensation is incredibly noncompetitive for engineering positions, you can find better. - You can expect employees to post to their Instagram story wheel all day while you are slaving away in the endless ocean of Jira tickets. - Plan to work with employees who clearly do not know what they are doing, i.e. something as simple as sending files as attachments. - HR is borderline non-existent it takes 3 weeks for them to answer any of your issues. 3 WEEKS. They hire "contractors" to answer and triage your problem, you dont even get a real HR employee. - Still does not know how to retain employees, even though they have "been working on it". Its been 3 years since you started "working on it". A SR Hr representative in 2019 mentioned they dont look to retain employees for more than 3 years. "We cant make them stay" was the direct quote. If an employee leaves within 6-12 months, then they will start looking into why recruiting is failing....What. This is baffling.

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Criteo Response
4y
We're very sorry to hear the difficulties you have felt during your time at Criteo. This definitely does not reflect the experience we want to offer to our employees in terms of support in their day-to-day and career development. We are paying extra attention to the workload of our employees, from ensuring easy access to HR to providing external professional support when required. Thank you for the time spent together, and we sincerely wish you the best in your future experience.
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