Criteo Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Work life balance is amazing

Cons

None. Can’t think of any

Pros

They provide a great work life balance

Cons

There aren't any cons working at Criteo

Pros

Criteo is tech focused and the engineers are the stars here. * The management is somewhat open to change * Company values diversity * OK compensation * Very good work life balance * Paid overtime * Varied tech stack (c#, java, scala, kotlin, python, ruby) so you'll find a match * OK place to start your career

Cons

Coming from a FAANG company due to family reasons, I was shocked at the diversity of engineer skills here. You can see one skilled and enthusiastic engineer, and a staff/senior engineer that shouldn't even be hired as an intern. Though rarely, I've also encountered people in high tech positions that don't speak English very well. It's a mixed bag. The company is very bureaucratic and slow; even small projects require several meetings in which some people's opinions matter more than others. The kickoff meetings are a joke, people just want to state things to sound smart and they block you in the process. The codebase is very low quality, there's no coding standard, and the high number of supported languages doesn't help. When a feature is replaced, the old code doesn't get deleted, the migrations don't get done to completion, and the code grows and grows over time, becoming more fragile at each iteration. Then you find yourself reading code that's not even used anymore, because it turns out that the code you're reading was there just to support one project that prevented some migration from going complete in 2018 and it was decommissioned in 2020, but no one bothered to clean it up. If you're coming from FAANG, don't make same the mistake I've made. Your skills won't be appreciated here and you'll struggle trying to be productive.

Pros

Work life balance is good

Cons

No quarterly meetup in the quarte

Pros

Good place to work for a short period of time

Cons

Too much work load. Difficult to maintain healthy work life balance

Pros

Probably sounds a bit cheesy to say we are a big happy family... but we are! My colleagues care about me and the Leadership team cares about my well being and work/life balance - or blend as it tends to be for me, a working, solo parent. Every week I am impressed by how our Workplace Experience team go above and beyond to make our days interesting and our lives comfortable. From free food and healthy snacks to events, to Pilates and meditation, to theme days, volunteer opportunities, incredible benefits, perks aplenty and help and support whenever needed, whatever it's needed for. From a work perspective, we are given ample opportunity to get involved in extra curricular opportunities. I recently got to speak at our Global conference, on a subject not related to my day to day work but that I am passionate about and which is relevant, in a broader sense, to everyone, and I've been with the company a mere 7 months. We can also work remotely from any other Criteo office if we want to do a bit of travelling. Which I think is such a simple yet effective perk! Management are very reasonable and recognise that life outside of work is incredibly important and that happy staff = a successful business.

Cons

As with all other jobs I've ever had in the media industry. Definitely not for the fainthearted, its a fast paced environment and the work seemingly never stops. We are rewarded really well from a financial perspective (in my opinion) so it makes it worthwhile. But it can be stressful at times and there are many plates to spin. That said, as described in 'pros', Criteo actually helps us learn and adopt the tools necessary to thrive in such an environment, for example: mindfulness and nutrition talks, meditation classes, massages on Fridays, the option to WFH ad hoc. The structure is quite flat, I don't know where I would go from here in another year or so. Though again, this is not exclusive to Criteo, this has always been the case for the Media roles and companies I've worked in, .

Pros

Work life balance holiday policy

Cons

No training and job security

Pros

Good work life balance in Japan

Cons

Retention rate is not good

Pros

Good work life balance overall

Cons

No salary payrise or recognition

Pros

- Great work culture that values work/life balance and that promotes frequent team outings - Very dynamic organization and product portfolio that go through frequent iterations/evolutions which surfaces internal movement opportunities - An overarching company mission that resonates well (the company likes to call itself the savior of the open internet) - Your voice is always heard as an employee

Cons

- Poor track record of executing on the company vision - There's not enough commitment on the management side to remove the blockers that thwart execution - Not a clear correlation between performance and compensation (does not seem to be much of a difference between being a slacker and being a difference-maker) - Lack of teams/people that own a product or an initiative in an end-to-end fashion (this could lead to a lot of you've got to speak to this team for this and then, this team directs you to another one). This also leads to managers/execs not focusing on their impact but being worried about their title prospects. - Team structure is not consistent across different regions - Its compensation level in comparison to market is not consistent across the countries where Criteo has a presence. Particularly, its compensation scheme does not work properly in high-inflation markets.