Humanity vs Machine - Account Strategist Criteo Employee Review

1.0
Jan 29, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

In Barcelona they pay a bit more than the average salary is

Cons

The value for the individual person is going to be lost, it´s all about working as hard as possible without any rewards given - the appreciation regarding the employees is dropping constantly. Communication is not transparent and between the teams we have huge gaps in terms of granting Work from Home or Work from Another Office rules, the allowed days are also dropping constantly without official communication. We also keep bad Team Leads and Managers which are unable to show the needed skills - like communication and empathy. And instead of giving back, Criteo takes even more amenities from us as employees. We get less and less money for Team Events, Client Travels - even our Targets are constantly increasing, what makes it even harder to archieve them and therefore to get our bonus payouts.

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Criteo Response
7y
Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. We appreciate you sharing your personal experience at Criteo. The People and Leadership teams continuously work on different initiatives to develop our managers and to ensure a fair workplace. In a commercial organization, it is true that targets are important, but we strive to focus first and foremost on our people. We continue to look at ways we can improve manager experience for our team members to build a culture where team members can be open and express their perspective. We have seen measurable improvements to both employee engagement and leader to employee engagement in the last 9 months. I’d welcome the opportunity to discuss the issues you are experiencing in more detail in confidence. Please feel free send me an email directly to s.chindalur@criteo.com Thank you. Regards, Shruthi Chindalur – Regional Managing Director, EMEA MM

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Cons

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Cons

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