Not an innovation company anymore. Make money or make room for somebody who will. - Machine Learning Engineer Criteo Employee Review

1.0
24 Jan 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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Cons

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Criteo Response
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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.
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Pros

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Cons

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Criteo Response
2w
Through the way they connect, build each other up, and impact one another, people make Criteo into a unique workplace every day, and we’re glad it's something you appreciated during your time with us. When it comes to our company’s future, decisions are never arbitrary but made with shared responsibility, maximum transparency, and bearing our long-term organizational health in mind. Yet, receiving open feedback, whether positive or not, is always valuable to us, so thank you for sharing yours. We wish you the best for what comes next.
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