Room for Improvement. Especially in (micro)Management - Sales Executive Criteo Employee Review

2.0
Jun 22, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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