Beats unemployment for sure - Senior Software Engineer Criteo Employee Review

Hi, my name is Maxime Brugidou, Engineering Director. Thank you for taking the time to share such detailed feedback. I am sorry to hear you are not making the most out of your experience with us though. We highly promote a bottom-up approach and open feedback culture, so we can fix problems as we go. We strongly encourage innovation internally, with initiatives such as 10% projects, or the Voyager program. Project management is an area of constant improvement, and we are determined to make processes quicker and smoother as we evolve. The Kick-off process, for instance, is constantly improving - there is even a guild dedicated to this process (with a healthy mix of ICs, leads, managers, TPMs, etc.) We also intend for the process to be largely asynchronous - most of the discussion should have already happened in Confluence before the meeting even takes place. If you feel the process is too slow, perhaps getting involved in the guild could be a smart way to help improve it. We are a large engineering organization, with a diverse codebase, and a mix of legacy along with new stacks that we have to maintain. We acknowledge that the quality may vary from one project to the other, as we must keep making pragmatic trade-offs. We do focus on cleaning and deleting old projects, and actively reducing debt across the organization. I can assure you this is something top management is aware of and supports. Our people come from all over the world, so I guess encountering various accents and speaking levels is part of the deal. We see diversity as a real strength, and we are proud of the hiring bar we work with to ensure we hire the best people around the globe. We are constantly challenging and improving our hiring and performance evaluation processes to hire and retain the best diverse engineers while remaining people-centric and providing growth opportunities.