Toxic environment in a building with great views of Barcelona. - Sales Manager Criteo Employee Review

1.0
Aug 26, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Easy to commute - Medical Insurance - Lunch Card - Decent salary

Cons

Criteo has been going from bad to worse from early this year. Whoever is practising compassionate leadership has hired people in the top leadership roles in the name of restructuring and disruption which are far away from knowing what compassion is, which makes one wonder if the compassionate leadership that is being harped is a facade? 1-2-1 meetings with so called top leaders are a torture chamber experience where the real colour of the leader comes out. There is emotional abuse, intimidation, threatening, and ultimatums about your ability to contribute to their bonus. It is hard to see these so called leaders care about people than their own pockets. Many people who have been at Criteo for many years have been pushed out in less than compassionate ways. People are being fired without ethics. People experience (Human Resource) is a joke. In the markets where economic crisis is looming, customers are pausing campaigns after three months as Criteo is not able to deliver promised results.

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Criteo Response
6y
Thank you for taking the time to give your open feedback. We are moving through a transition as a Company and during this time, we continue to assess and invest to ensure we have the right leaders for the future. Our people are the core of the business, and we work to provide a positive working culture for all, evolving this continually over time. We conduct regular employee surveys to assess manager performance and identify where we need to invest so that our managers provide a leadership experience for employees which is in line with our Company values. We work to assess performance of our employees in a fair and consistent way and where transitions occur, we aim to do so with fairness and integrity. If you’d like to discuss any specific feedback in a confidential way, please feel free to reach out to me directly. Regards, Shruthi Chindalur, Executive Managing Director EMEA

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5.0
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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
4d
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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