Plenty of better options elsewhere - Senior Manager Criteo Employee Review

1.0
Jan 5, 2022
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Some nice people, selection of good benefits including WFH

Cons

Constant cost cutting - operating on a shoe string budget but expecting miracles. Regular rounds of poorly executed redundancies and restructuring over the last few years - if you like security then avoid Incompetent and unqualified leaders, in particular amongst Directors and Senior Directors. Speaking French seems to be the main criteria to get to this level. Lots of talk about being ‘People focused’ but in reality this is not the case. Talent Development and promotion opportunities minimal.

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Criteo Response
3y
We are deeply sorry to hear that you didn't feel supported. ​ Our plan to become the world-leading Commerce Media Platform, announced in February 2021, has led to us having to pivot. True it is that the industry is fast-paced, which is also what inspires us to meet the challenge.​ As an acknowledgment for employees' efforts during this time, we gave all Criteos a free rest day and increased our investment into people wellbeing, as we strongly believe that we will not achieve our goals without setting up our people for success.​ Again, we are sorry that you didn't feel that way. The experience you describe is far from what we want to offer. We wish you to find what you're looking for in your new company.​

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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
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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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