Criteo Software Engineer interview experience

I first went through screening and early technical steps, and the recruiter framing made it sound like the process would be a handful of rounds. Instead, I ended up in a long stretch with new prep topics constantly added, and the timelines dragged out across weeks with periods of silence.

At one point the process even became erratic: an interview was scheduled through an AI flow and the interviewer didn’t show up, which basically derailed the momentum. Later, communication around a take-home and then a live coding addition got thrown off when I was given last-minute changes and not enough