Criteo reviews

Unstructured environement, when you have several thousands employees you would come to expect a smoother learning path and repositories. All knowledge is stored on confluence with no hierarchy, no source of truths, no rankings of fiability, a bit of a "jungle". Teams work in silo and armwrestling constantly with each other. Unexperienced direct management, very operational, not people-oriented, not motivational nor aspirational. Lack of vision, direction and purpose enablement. Long hours, top down approach, ticketing system, very much a high-volume customer service kind of job, no corporate mobile phone nor monthly telecom subscription included, no reimbursement of broadband at home. No consulting missions, nearly no client-facing time, very limited knowledge of client overall objectives or KPIs by salesreps. Very much a one-size fits all approach to everything. Glitchy HR process with too many steps, tests not reflecting the actual job, which mean they lose a lot of excellent candidates along the process. High attrition rates, focus on hiring junior workforce across the organisation. In need of some topping up of employees yearly stock plans due to huge drop in stock value, which is also impacting yearly events.

Disclaimer : I'm not happy to write this review because I know the potential of this company but it has to be done so maybe Top management will start taking actions against what's ruining this company. The sentence "You're not leaving the company, you're leaving your manager" has never been so true than with Criteo. Low level managers in general in Barcelona are very unqualified (No experience, no training except internal, they are lost at managing people) - Lifetime in Criteo is basically very short, so it is good as a first job but not if you plan to stay. Indeed, many people leaving the company, by themselves or not (10 people left in 8 months in my team of ..... 12 people). - Company really into numbers and not into humans even though all the fancies playstation and stuffs. - Very hierarchical, you can't exchange with someone without being pushed out if you're not at the same level - MicroManagement all day long, like you're back to highschool and your teamleaders/managers are just school teachers, despite being your age. You're not being listened to and if the figures are good, why do you complain ? - No yearly raised, so be sure to negotiate your salary - No real carrer path even though there is one. You have to know that even though before you could go from Sales Manager to TeamLeader in 12 months and without specific requirements, it takes now up to 3 years ! - Sales Manager Junior (8 to 12 months) -> Sales Manager Intermediate (same job with higher target and a small raise) (8 to 12 months) -> Teamleader or Sales Senior. In average : 1 to 2 person is getting promoted among a team of 15, 2 times a year. Criteo has the potential to be a really strong company because the values its build on are good, but unfortunately atmosphere is getting completely destroyed by low level managers and teamleaders.