Culture & Community
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Criteo and the Advertising Ethics
An article by Zofia Trstanova and Renaud Bauvin When responding to the usual question ‘What do you do for a living?’, you tell someone that you work in online advertising, the reaction is often the same: ’So you are the ones with the annoying pop-ups I can’t close’ or ‘Oh, you are the ones showing…
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Writing a Tech Blog Post — Tips and Tricks from the Criteo Engineers
Last year, we decided to take our Tech Blog to www.medium.com. With a lot of hard work from our writers, we had more success than we hoped for, being featured in the ranking of Top 44 French Engineering Blogs published on Toucan Toco in partnership with the guriosity project, with Criteo ranking #1. We are…
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Hackathon at scale: 3 perspectives
On March 2019, more than 600 Criteo employees joined our worldwide hackathon for 48 hours. From Palo Alto to Paris and Singapore, our… 649 participants, 96 projects, 3 perspectives. Hackathon at scale: 3 perspectives. On March 2019, more than 600 Criteo employees joined our worldwide hackathon for 48 hours. From Palo Alto to Paris and…
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Hashcode 2018 Report
How to make it to the top. This year we took part in the Google Hashcode competition. This is a yearly competition where teams of 2 to 4 participants have to solve a real-life optimization problem. It starts with a 4 hours online contest, with thousands of teams participating worldwide. The top 50 teams then move…
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Aujourd’hui je code!
Teaching girls to code The last day of November 2017 was a special day: about 40 students came to visit Criteo, discover our company and learn to code with close monitoring from experienced programmers. Why holding “Aujourd’hui, je code!”? At Criteo, we are coders and we thoroughly enjoy the creativity that computer programming unlocks. Programming is a…
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What it takes to be the Meilleur Dev de France 2017 (the Best Developer of France).
Last week, the 5th edition of the Meilleur Dev de France took place at Station F, the largest start-up campus in Europe and had over 7000 people in attendance that included 700 coders and some of the nation’s best companies. Like previous editions, Criteo’s engineers Came they Saw and they Conquered. Stephane Le Roy, a…
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Open Source at Criteo
Criteo is committed to contributing to the open source community. We use ample open-source software internally (Cassandra, Chef, Couchbase, Gerrit, GitLab, Graphite, Hadoop, Kafka, …). We publish the tools we believe to be of general interest, and contribute bug fixes and improvements to the open-source software we use. Our projects are split between two GitHub entities:…
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Mobile in China is the new black
In this post, we present our analysis of the Chinese Mobile Market and underline critical trends for digital actors like Criteo. For many, China’s image is still very related to the old image of low quality / cheap products. To all of these sino-skeptics people, we would advice to very quickly revise their judgment and…
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We showed out @Meilleur Dev de France 2016
As you may have already read (seen) in several French media outlets, the fourth edition of “Le Meilleur Dev de France (The Best Developer of France coding contest) took place on March 14th, in the “Theatre de Paris”. Just like the event’s intallment, this was our fourth time participating and we we had a big…