I talked to an HR recruiter by phone, the call was nice and easy, it lasted about half an hour. Just soft questions intending to understand my motivations, resume and experience. At the end, the recruiter told me that would recommend me for the position, and that they would be in touch soon for having me another interview with a technical person. After two weeks, I didn't have any news from them. Then I emailed the recruiter asking for a follow up, but I got no reply, even after two more weeks. Not very professional, I would say.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Criteo (Paris) in Aug 2022
Interview
The process, in all, took 6 interviews. Most of them were real use cases to assess project management skills and negotiation. There was also a technical interview where I was asked to draft a high-level design of a system. I had visibility on the process at all times and they were all really nice to talk to.
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One R&D team wants to change their pipeline but it is hard to prioritise it due to other requests.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Criteo (Paris) in Mar 2019
Interview
The process, which took a bit more than a month, was a very pleasant experience.
I had a call with the R&D recruitment team, a skype interview and a few on-site interviews.
The recruiter provided me with useful information on how to prepare and feedback throughout the whole process.
The team has been very helpful and reactive, and I felt they really cared about creating a great environment right from the start.
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Mostly fit: what would you do in this situation, how would you deal with X or Y.
Tech interviews were about designing scalable solutions.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Criteo (Paris) in May 2018
Interview
I made 6 interviews in total: HR, Skype, Technical, two for Management and Soft skills. All process took around 2 and a half months.
I was called by a recruiter who presented me the opportunity and accompanied me all over the process by explaining every step, by sending me useful information and suggesting me how to prepare. This was really helpful and the feeling was that they were very interested in my profile.
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Question 1
There were no trap questions. A lot of scenario questions: What will you do in this case? How do you handle that?
A lot of question about my motivation, my expectation, my personality.
On the technical interview, there was an exercise on designing a scalable system.
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