Criteo Data Analyst interview experience

I answered questions that covered both Python and SQL, and there was at least one moment where I actually had to write a query from instructions and work through the problem step by step.

In my experience, there was also an immediate mismatch on tooling expectations. The recruiter later explained that their team used MySQL, and that mattered for how my SQL was evaluated—specifically, my SQL dialect wasn’t what they used day to day. It wasn’t a gentle rejection; it felt pretty direct that the syntax and ecosystem alignment would decide the outcome.

Even though the overall format wasn’t