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Criteo
Company blog · criteo.com/insightsbusinessdata
Criteo is the company blog at criteo.com, writing about business and data. Since 2011, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Criteo mostly in 'Who is hiring' threads for its job listings. It is also cited as the performance-based ad retargeting company behind some ads people notice tracking them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Make every shopping moment smarter with ads powered by commerce AI fueled by the world’s largest set of commerce data
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-10-04
- /careers/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-03
- /us/about/careers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-01
What Hacker News says?
CRITEO | http://www.criteo.com | ONSITE, Full-Time | Developers, Data Scientists, Designers, R&D | Paris, San Francisco, Boston, Sao Paolo, London, Tokyo, New York, Singapore, Palo Alto, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and Stockholm Here is a nice video of the life at Criteo: https://youtu.be/i1zC3H3_gik Positions are full-time, on-site and the company helps with relocation. Benefits include : ---- 100% premium coverage of He…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted The Startup That Uses Machine Learning to Make Websites in Just 30 Seconds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCriteo | Software Engineers and Research Scientists | http://criteo.com | ONSITE Palo Alto, Ca - Paris, France Frontend/Backend/Everything in Between. Data Scientists, Machine Learning Experts. The Criteo Prediction Engine analyzes 230Tb of data every day. Criteo is a performance-based internet advertising company. We historically focus on display ads with an emphasis in retargeting strategies. Criteo does not have…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted Personalization and Beyond: 6 Ways Marketers Can Benefit from Machine Learning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCriteo ( http://www.criteo.com/ ) | Palo Alto, SF, Paris, Tokyo, Barcelona, Sao Paulo, and more | Software Engineering, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Analysts and more (220 positions open) Please, read description for some of the positions here: http://app.jobvite.com/m?3wgJgiwy Watch this video to see more about work at Criteo: https://youtu.be/i1zC3H3_gik Benefits include : ---- 100% premium coverage of H…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted The state of mobile commerce – q4 2014 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCriteo | Palo Alto (US) & Paris (France) | Full-time & Interns | Onsite | Relocation + Visa Support provided Criteo is looking for exceptional software engineers, machine learning engineers, research scientists, data scientists, and project managers. We own the largest Hadoop cluster in Europe. We leverage our 40-petabyte Hadoop cluster to train machine learning models for dynamic ad targeting. Specifically, we pred…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)”Submitted This is how you do a privacy policy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCriteo - Software Engineers and Research Scientists. http://criteo.com San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Angeles , CA Paris, France Frontend/Backend/Everything in Between. Data Scientists, Machine Learning Experts. The Criteo Prediction Engine analyzes 230Tb of data every day. Criteo is a performance-based internet advertising company. We historically focus on display ads with an emphasis in retargeting strategies. Crit…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)”There do not appear to be any job listings here http://www.criteo.com/us/about/careers . Is there a better link to find more info about the open positions?
Comment linking /us/about/careers
on “Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (May 2011)”Reading this thread I can answer the question because I have worked in this industry and given/sold data to Intellius specifically. There are three main sources of ALL of the data: 1. Acxiom http://www.acxiom.com/ 2. Experian http://www.experian.com/ 3. Neustar https://www.neustar.biz/ Acxiom got it's big start by developing a way to copy phone books in the 90s and they won a court case that sided with them saying t…
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on “Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, Instant Checkmate, etc?”Palo Alto, CA - Criteo (www.criteo.com) The R&D team at Criteo is building the next generation of digital advertising technologies that power billions of ad impressions every month. We are looking for great developers who are passionate about engineering challenges! Currently looking to fill R&D positions: - C#, Java or C++, SQL, HTML, CSS, XML - Must be hard working, team oriented, bright, creative, cooperative, an…
Comment linking /us/about/careers
on “Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)”Paris, France - (interns accepted, no remote) - Criteo We do a lot of things and use C# (.NET), memcached, hadoop/hive, mongoDB, SQL Server, RabbitMQ... We are looking for great developers, passionate about engineering challenges … looking for the next problem to solve, in a fast-paced environment! - BS/MS n computer science or a scientific field - Excellent analytical skills/Strong focus on algorithmic thinking - E…
Comment linking /fr/a-propos/emploi
on “Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011)”Here's the company behind that: http://www.criteo.com/ Its a 3 billion French company whose sole job is to show ads for products abandoned in the cart or something you bought 6 months ago or something that their personalization algorithm suggests
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: How was this ad targeted to me?”Among other things, they're using Criteo Email, which can supposedly identify an e-mail address for up to 30% of a site's unregistered traffic. http://www.criteo.com/what-we-do/products/ You'll find that, along with a dozen other marketing/tracking related products, by observing all the JavaScript tags the site loads through your browser's network inspector. You won't find some of them in the HTML source because the…
Comment linking /what-we-do/products/
on “Ask HN: How did they get my email?”