I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Criteo (Paris) in Sep 2015
Interview
Nice HR manager, a few phone calls, one hour phone screen interview, couple skype coding calls. For codding there are one or two interviewers at a time. Organised and paid flight to Paris for onsite interview panel. Onsite besides coding - there is the design interview as well. Nice office. Even useful feedback from HR after each stage. Average time from stage to stage 1-1.5 weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Relatively average programming tasks (operating with arrays, hashtables, breadth/depth first search kind of solutions, sometimes some gotcha needed). No graphs or BSTsfor instance. Half of the tasks I've seen online or in the books before almost exacly as was asked. After initial tasks usually comes questions how you can parrallel this or do the same for much larger data input. Many questions about knowing the framework and main language features for checking depth of knowledge or what has changed for the last N years. More or less the same for skype and onsite difficulty level. HR type of questions they will ask almost all of them you can find in the web along the process (worst challenge, when did you fail etc.).
This has first round of HR screening and two rounds of Technical round (more coding discussing with interviewer) and one round of system design. Later last round of offer discussion.
Processus de recrutement en quatre étapes : un entretien RH pour discuter du parcours et des motivations, un entretien technique Python d’environ 1h avec des exercices de programmation, un entretien technique web de 2h portant sur les technologies et concepts web, et enfin un entretien d’1h sur le software design pour évaluer les compétences en architecture et conception de systèmes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Programme Python classique pour vérifier si les parenthèses sont valides
I applied online. I interviewed at Criteo (Bucharest, Bucuresti) in Jan 2026
Interview
application screening, followed by a initial video interview with the HR, than a first technical interview to assess basic qualifications. Questions were of type medium leetcode problem with deep dive and improvements after
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Criteo with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 80% positive. To compare, the company-average is 70.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 31 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Criteo overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Criteo as a Software Engineer according to 31 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 31%
One on one interview: 28%
Skills test: 13%
Presentation: 10%
Group panel interview: 9%
Drug test: 3%
Background check: 3%
Personality test: 1%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
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