I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Criteo (Londres, Inglaterra)
Interview
Long, protracted, poorly organized.
There were a series of calls arranged that individually all went very well. HR was extremely poor in providing any feedback. The entire process took more than 6 weeks. It felt like my brains were being picked more than I was being seriously considered for the role. I would be told that they would be making a decision shortly, and then suddenly be told I had more interviews to do.
The final task I was asked to demonstrate how I would bring a product to market. The original instructions were very clear:
"Similar to the previous exercise, I’m mostly interested to see your approach and thinking rather than the specific answer".
This is a huge amount of work to undertake in a weekend but I put together an example Opportunity Assessment, Product Brief and Go To Market plan - with example outputs for the the particular product they'd asked me to work on. It was by no means intended to be a perfect, finished piece of work but designed to demonstrate the process and how certain outputs related to that product would be generated through that process.
I received no feedback until I repeatedly prompted, finally to be told that I hadn't been successful but would need to attend another call to hear deep and constructive feedback. I was unable to make the call and asked instead if the feedback could be emailed to me.
In summary the feedback was that in doing exactly what I had been asked, I had not been successful:
"Too much of the presentation was spent on how product marketing is done vs. answering the specific questions."
And that I was too technical and this had been a common feedback theme throughout the whole 6 weeks (while they still continued to string me along).
So it seemed that I was being messed around and really what they were looking for was free work, competitive intelligence and ideas for their own process.
Very disappointing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you measure the revenue opportunity for a mobile video ad product?
I applied online. I interviewed at Criteo (New York, NY) in Oct 2019
Interview
Recruiter contacted me earlier this week to schedule a phone interview. The scheduled call for today has come and passed. I reached back out via email after the time passed to check if we were still on and received no response. I guess no response is also a response. Pretty unprofessional but ok.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Criteo (Los Angeles, CA) in Jun 2018
Interview
I was asked behavioral questions as well as industry questions.
The interviewer was my future manager and was incredibly knowledgeable.
Expected to understand marketing, product management, and how to be collaborative.