Great atmosphere - confusion career progression - TS Engineer Criteo Employee Review

4.0
Jun 27, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Great work/life balance -Great benefits and perks -Well designed and attractive offices -Ability for international travel/relocation -Yearly Global summit with ALL employees flown to same location (optional attendance) Criteo is an industry leader and it shows. The company does well every year and you can feel the market power in every position in the company. It makes you feel proud and invested in work to know you're on the cutting edge and setting the industry standard. Criteo really feels like a family. People are invested in you beyond immediate work responsibilities. Easy to get along with co-workers through the many social events and opportunities to interact. The atmosphere makes coming to work everyday a pleasure.

Cons

-Confusing career progression outside of R&D Criteo highly prioritizes R&D and it shows. R&D has very straight forward career any salary progression. As R&D is the life blood of innovation, it makes sense. However, most other positions are left on the outside looking in, and faced with a confusing/muddy view of how they can progress in there career. Furthermore, internal promotion into senior management positions almost never happens. With little to know career paths planned out, and external hiring, it can feel like you are spinning your wheels. After a certain number of raises, it can quickly feel like you've reached your cap and you'll need to go elsewhere to get a high salary/responsibility level. However, even if that is the route you go, Criteo is still a great stop on your career progression and to have on your resume.

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

Great environment, great people to work with

Cons

Need to go back to office

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Criteo Response
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We're thrilled to receive such positive feedback and to know that you've found a place where you can grow and thrive at Criteo. Thank you for sharing and for your trust all these years. It's great to have you on the team!
2.0
Jan 31, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Smart, hardworking people at the individual contributor level (many of whom are now gone). Little micro-managing, but that’s because everyone’s bandwidth is near 0

Cons

Post–new CEO, the company has descended into complete chaos. There is no transparency around decisions that impact teams and roles. There have been consistent strategy, personnel, and supplier changes with no explanation, accountability, or follow-through. Cons, continued: Employee input and performance do not matter. Decisions feel driven by appeasing BoD and optics rather than results, input and reality. The culture has become a corporate hellscape of: Endless reorganizations with no clear rationale, including layoffs with no reasoning Vague all-hands meetings that avoid real issues, even when directly asked A massive disconnect between the C-suite and day-to-day reality Eroded trust and growing position insecurity Middle managers incentivized to prioritize managing up & executive optics over team advocacy “Return to Office” policy put in place when promised a “Work from Anywhere” position, where the RTO policy differs across employees’ location Little to no growth opportunities despite high performance Under-market average compensation that was justified by locale, “Work from Anywhere”, and flexibility — which was recently rolled back A clear favoritism to those that “talk the talk” vs “performance with numbers”

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