"Hotel California" in adTech that you'll be glad to leave - Anonymous employee PubMatic Employee Review

1.0
Dec 4, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The only things that can be mentioned are exposure to new technologies and core ad tech concepts.

Cons

They say the fish rots from the head, and this company is the perfect example for a leadership that is destroying a great company with ego and sheer ignorance of the major problems that are plaguing it. HR is probably the worst of all, treating everyone as replaceable company pet. The company tries to appeal by throwing some money at candidates and once they somehow fool them to join, all the hell breaks loose. Lack of training, lack of direction, micromanagement, work overload, unrealistic expectations, gender biased policies are just some to list. Seeing the HR respond to negative comments with a template response is even more indicative of the interest and involvement to fix problems. Smart people are long gone, and the ones left are probably one foot out the door. I really liked this company and looked at it as one of the leaders in the programmatic ad tech space, and now it is a sad shadow of what it used to be. Super smart CEO that shockingly does not acknowledge the major problems or is not being given the full picture by those responsible to do so.

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Pros

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Cons

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