Criteo·Software Engineer

Criteo Software Engineer interview experience

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IsraelPosted Apr 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a coding interview that actually stood out for me because it felt supportive and well-run, even though I was nervous going in.

After an HR screen, I was invited to a session using CoderPad with two senior engineers. The task focused on working with a Java code snippet: reviewing it, identifying a couple of bugs, and implementing a missing method.

At the start I hit a mental block—partly because I hadn’t used CoderPad before and I was more comfortable with an IDE—but the interviewers were patient and encouraging. Once I got past that initial pause, I settled into a flow and ended up enjoying the problem. The debugging and “figure out what’s going on in unfamiliar code” aspect felt like it matched real work.

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