Great company culture, poor choice in management - Creative Consultant Criteo Employee Review

3.0
12 Jan 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

work with energetic, international people, and take advantage of work exchange programs

Cons

Management is inexperienced and not vetted. Favouritism is evident and there is little opportunity for growth unless you rub the right shoulders.

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Criteo Response
5y
Thanks for taking the time to express your thoughts. We are glad to hear that you work with people you appreciated. We are committed to developing our managers into leaders who support the growth and success of their teams. In 2019, we won a Brandon Hall Group award for Excellence in Leadership Development for our in-house manager training programs. In 2020, we rolled out a Manager Behavior Framework based on our values to develop and support manager's growth. Employees are given the opportunity to provide feedback on their manager in the annual manager performance survey and have facilitated access to their local People Partner to discuss any specific concerns. We wish you all the best for the future.

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5.0
8 June 2026
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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
1w
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
31 Jan 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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