Career & Growth
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What the EPM Role Looks Like in Practice at Criteo
In our previous post, we explained the Engineering Program Manager role at Criteo at a high level: EPMs sit at the intersection of business ambition, technical reality, and execution, helping complex cross-team initiatives move from intent to delivery. But if you are considering this role, that high-level description is only the beginning. The more interesting…
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At the Heart of Delivery: What Engineering Program Managers Do at Criteo
At Criteo, Engineering Program Managers (EPMs) sit at the heart of our most complex, cross-team initiatives. We connect business ambition with technical reality, helping engineering teams ship impactful products at scale. In this article, three EPMs share what the role really looks like, why we love it, and how your career can grow in this…
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Transitioning to a Career in Code (Women Who Code talk)
We spend so much time in our jobs. Society evolved to put work at the center of everything. We dedicate at least eight hours of our day, five days a week, to work. We need to choose our major when we are 18 years old. Sometimes people are lucky and find their call right away;…
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Open Roles at Criteo R&D
Interested in becoming part of our tech blog? Apply for a job at Criteo in Paris or Ann Arbor! You’ve been reading our tech blog for frequent updates and would like to join the crowd? You’re in luck because we are hiring! Check out June’s hot jobs in our Paris and Ann Arbor offices! Paris Analytics…
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Data Science: real jobs beyond the buzz
It has been now almost 4 years since I joined Criteo and I still keep a vivid memory of my first day on the job. Hired to lead a team of 4 Data Scientists and being “given access to one of the world’s biggest datasets, and the computing power to exploit it” (as per the…
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My year(s) at Criteo as a visiting professor
After working on theoretical questions in high-dimensional statistics as an academic at UC, Berkeley, I felt I wanted to see what statistics and machine learning were at industrial scale. This is why I joined Criteo in September 2017 to contribute to large-scale machine learning in industry. Friends in France told me that Criteo had positions…
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Career tracks and leveling in Criteo R&D
One of the questions we hear a lot from engineers in our recruiting process is what kind of career path exists for technical specialists within Criteo. Their concern stems from the fact that they have already reached the top of the technical path in their current company and their only option for progressing is to…
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How being a mom made me more self-confident in a Tech environment?
Today, I am a proud mom of two kids, one girl aged 6 and one little boy aged 2. I started my career as a Software Engineer, working for three years before joining Criteo in 2010. Today, I am an Engineering Program Manager Lead in R&D, meaning I have to develop a team of talented Engineering…
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Better ask for forgiveness than for permission
Meet Criteo lab’s Matthieu Blumberg This article originally appeared on CTO Pizza on September 21 st, as part of the series of interviews conducted by Alban Dumouilla to unearth some of the daily challenges of CTOs and tech leads around a pizza. Who’s the guy managing Criteo’s huge infrastructure? It’s very important to give people meaning…
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I am a recruiter and I love recommender systems
As soon as I knew I would join Criteo as a R&D recruiter, I started to brush up my Machine Learning skills. Quickly, I bumped into the big names : Andrew Ng, Yoshua Bengio, Yann Le Cun, Geoffrey Hinton…etc. Knowing those names is important as, nowadays, researchers have an impactful aura on other researchers but also…