Criteo Reviews

Pros

- Surrounded by smart people - Recent technical landscape - Challenging technical challenges - Keeping on learning new things - Freedom of means - Great atmosphere at work

Cons

- Heavy processes for POCs and evaluation

Pros

Great benefits with great salary

Cons

The company needs to get their mojo back and find their feet again.

Advice to Management

Allow the development and movement of non French / EU citizens

Pros

hard to tell now, I guess they pay a good base salary because they don't have the choice anymore. It used to be great

Cons

If you are not into the circle of 3 or 4 people, you will be in trouble. You will see them more often at the bar near by than at the office. It's now too political, and those people blocks new projects, so they can keep their legacy infrastructure and maintain their job. Its totally outdated, bad atmosphere to work. Even perf review , its totally fake and not fair, management knows it, HR knows it, but do nothing.

Advice to Management

Time to do a big cleanup

Pros

- Great coworkers with brilliant research mindset. - Diversity of topics. - Great internal mobility.

Cons

- Not enough meetings inter-teams to know what the other teams are working on.

Advice to Management

- Keep pushing research to create the best Lab in europe.

Pros

Ability to learn new. I learned quite a bit of machine learning and got some hands on experience with ML even though I did not have prior experience. They even gave me 3 weeks full time ML training Work trips to Paris Excellent work-life balance (hey, I had 23 (!) days of vacation)

Cons

HQ is in Paris so we adapt to them. That means a lot of 8AM (sometimes 7) meetings. At least one (or even two) trips to HQ Communication is a bit hard. I think there is a cultural barrier between offices.

Pros

Smart and fun colleagues. You will make friends and learn a lot

Cons

Not the most agile product development cycle. A lot of politics in higher echelons of power

Pros

Company Culture, collaboration environment, Best office location in Barcelona and dynamic company.

Cons

More and more junior profiles are hired. In the past there was a balanced mix of expertise across teams

Advice to Management

Hiring junior people will work as long as there is people with experience to transmit it. Make sure you bring more individual contributor profiles to Barcelona to make sure there is a real career plan.

Pros

I work(ed) in the Palo Alto office. * The Paris office is excellent, with some brilliant hard working individuals. * People are willing to help and do not judge you for asking stupid questions. It is in fact encouraged, and hierarchy does not matter. * High code quality standards, atleast in the projects that are Paris based. * A nice mix of European and US culture. * Excellent standards, the managers know... their engineering and are not just setting up meetings. It is not possible to hide BSing.

Cons

* HQ being in Paris creates great challenges, while everyone on the Paris side is super helpful, the time difference just does not work. Most infra is in Paris and you could find yourself stuck until the next day, which is not the fault of the Paris folks, just a time difference thing. * HQ being in Paris makes the promotion process non-transparent, people who put their head down and work hard can be overlooked... for people who are buddies and hang out outside of work hours. * Some of the code that Palo Alto and Ann Arbor teams work on; does not belong to 2019.

Advice to Management

* You have a great company that is built on a great engineering culture, without this, you will not have survived the AdTech space. Keep encouraging people who enforce standards and ask questions. * PA office experience was fantastic in terms of culture. In terms of output; I agree with the decision made; it just was not working.