Criteo·Software Engineer

Criteo Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

ParisPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview process stretched into a seven-step marathon that dragged across roughly two months, with about a month of silence before a final “no team found” decision.

What surprised me most was that it didn’t match what I was originally pitched. I started with the expectation of four interviews, but new prep topics and additional stages kept being added.

The sequence felt like a chain reaction: after a screening step, I got told to prep for a topic, then after completing the first tech round, I was directed to prepare additional areas again and again—often with prep themes shifting before the actual interview. I eventually moved into design, then cultural fit, and even a team-specific interview where the questions felt mixed. After that, there was another

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