Good employer - Technical Project Manager Criteo Employee Review

5.0
22 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Real scale & impact working with massive data volumes and high-load systems where changes directly affect global production traffic and major advertisers. Strong engineering culture focus on technical depth, thoughtful architecture, and shipping high-quality features to production. Growth & international environment continuous learning, cross-functional collaboration, and exposure to a truly global AdTech ecosystem.

Cons

High level of bureaucracy processes and approvals can be heavy. Slow decision-making changes often require long alignment across multiple teams. Promotion complexity career progression can be challenging and requires strong evidence and long-term impact.

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Criteo Response
2mo
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. We always welcome open feedback, as it allows us to gain valuable insights to help us move forward. Being a global company, we strive to make our processes and workflows as agile as possible, setting clear goals and cascading information transparently. That's also one of the reasons why we shift to a different work approach. By blending office presence with flexible options, we remain agile and autonomous while boosting collaboration and collective performance. There is always room at Criteo for those willing to be proactive in shaping their own career path. We want Criteo to be a place where people can grow and thrive. That's why merit and promotion cycles follow such structured and transparent processes. When it comes to career development, we want to ensure fairness and equity for all.

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5.0
25 Mar 2026
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Pros

Good work life balance, all young people.

Cons

Taking away perks that we have had for a long time. Eventually reach your cap as an IC.

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Criteo Response
2mo
We're glad to know you've had a positive experience with us all those years. Open feedback always helps us improve and move forward so thank you for sharing and for contributing to making Criteo such a special place to work.
1.0
26 Feb 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Earlier in my time at Criteo, the culture was a true strength. Teams were collaborative, capable, and invested in delivering value to clients. There are still incredibly smart, hardworking people across the organization when they are given the resources needed to deliver strong work.

Cons

Morale has declined significantly due to direction from upper leadership. Executive communications often feel scripted and disconnected from the realities teams are navigating. Employees are facing burnout, layoffs, no merit compensation growth, and increasing workloads without clear strategic guidance. Leadership layers have expanded in ways that create bottlenecks and slow decision making, while individual contributors lack clarity on priorities and long term direction. Internal mobility has been restricted, limiting opportunities for promotion or role movement at the same time compensation progression has been removed. Salary transparency was removed from internal and external role descriptions, which has impacted trust. Despite positive performance, cost discipline appears to disproportionately affect employees rather than being shared equitably across leadership levels. Additionally, a return to office policy has been implemented, including for employees originally hired as remote. This has added strain and uncertainty for teams.

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Criteo Response
3mo
Thank you for sharing such detailed feedback. Every decision we make is taken with our long-term organizational health in mind. From top leadership to individual contributors, we are all committed to building sustainable success for our company and the people in it. Making Criteo a place where everyone can grow is a shared priority, and that’s why we equally value vertical and horizontal career pathways. When it comes to individual recognition, our merit compensation processes are structured and similar across our entire organization to ensure maximum fairness and equity. Since Criteo's success is built on connections, we strongly encourage our teams to come together to boost innovation and collaboration at once. By blending office presence with flexible options, we keep trust at the core of our work approach since everyone remain empowered to manage their time, energy, and schedule the way they see fit. Open feedback helps us improve and move forward, so thank you for sharing yours!
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