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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Mar 18, 2021

All about numbers

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Pros

Good benefits Salary ok (but decreasing with higher job opportunities in Barcelona) Leader company in its market Possibility to create side projects and make them grow.

Cons

A LOT of nepotism Pretends to trust its employees but high micro managing at the end. Pretends numbers are not important (high hypocrisy) Blackbox even with its employees. The market itself is fishy (online ads in mass). When you think about it, Criteo is this annoying entity pushing you thousands of ads per day and enabling for mass consumption. Although it's all legal (completely), the methods are not great. In depth, Criteo's services just don't serve anyone any good. But, it does work. They make money and you will earn money working there. Just know you will contribute to one of the most indecent internet practice of nowadays. They hire new employees with a higher salary than for the existing ones and they ask those new employees not to divulgate, even lying to them saying it's forbidden to talk about salaries.

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Criteo Response
5y
We'd like to thank you for taking the time to share your experience, although we are very sorry to hear that you feel that you had an overall negative experience. We announced earlier this year that we were in a transformation phase, we are absolutely convinced that in the longer term, us pivoting to a Commerce Media Platform, will expand our addressable market and create new business opportunities as well as internal ones. Concerning the stress that you felt in your management, in all regions, we have put a strong focus on employee wellness with a large offer of Feelgood Initiatives by local Workplace teams, coupled with an offer of mental health support with professionals by an external service provider, we also have reinforced the communication about the importance of taking breaks. We strongly encourage you to reach out to your manager or local PE advisor to get an extended support.
2.0
Jan 22, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- Nice people, some good events

Cons

- insanely pushy management - sometimes pushing solutions that are not for client-benefit, rather only benefitial for the teamlead's or manager's benefit - micro-management at its best - heavy workload (very large portfolios) - bad administration - career opportunities: yes, if your French! - dying business (model) Honestly, it's a sign if young talent keeps leaving the company and wanting out asap.

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Criteo Response
5y
Thank you for taking the time to give your feedback on your experience. We work to assess performance of our employees in a fair and consistent way through our evolving Perform & Develop approach, and as we assess internal promotions, as well as appointments to new roles – we work to appoint the right candidate for any given role, taking into account all strands of diversity. To retain our position as a leader in technology advertising solutions, we’re a target driven business, but we work to support every team member in achieving or even over-achieving their objectives. As we move through a transition to a multi-product Company we’re shifting to become more customer centric, and we know we have strides to make here, and our new strategy puts the Customer at the centre of that.
2.0
Jun 22, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Great office, great culture, events, international environment. Good if you are Junior and want to start a career in sales.

Cons

- Middle (micro)management style - Vision and solution, services offered to clients who are used to transparency and high level of account management from other vendors (Google, FB, etc,) that have to deal with a lot of "no, we can't give you this data on your campaign", this makes the trust of the client fade away and makes the solution come across as non transparent. - Career progression scheme, lot of politics and it's easier to progress if you are French. - Southern Europe feels like a Call Center. - Not free to manage your PTO freely. You're "highly advised" (i.e. forced) to take a certain amount of time in certain months. (This applies to Southern Europe only).

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