PubMatic reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(610 total reviews)

Rajeev Goel

82% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

PubMatic has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 610 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PubMatic employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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610 reviews
1.0
Feb 18, 2016

Avoid...

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good exposure to the industry, opportunity to attend industry events and build your network, travel to other offices. Good stepping stone to better jobs in the market.

Cons

All employees are resources. No retention policy and they can change your role anytime they want as per their convenience. If you dont like it, you can leave. Management will do nothing about it. Humiliating experience working with the management here. HR is a big joke. They couldnt care less about the people working here. Processes and policies are made and changed as per whims of the management without keeping employee interests under consideration. No clue where the company is headed. No buyer and no scope for IPO. There is lot of internal mistrust and no one is aligned on how to take the company forward.

1.0
Dec 11, 2015

Swan Song

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I sadly cannot come up with a strong pro, they did historically offer competitive compensation for what its worth. The salary was nice, albeit the 401(k) did not have a match.

Cons

Middle management is terrible, while top management appears to know what they are doing they don't hear from the troops on the ground. Most of the individual contributors in the company are spinning their wheels. Clients no longer see PubMatic as a market leader and the company management is in denial about this for several quarters. Rather than doing a course correction on focusing on improving product we have had multiple "process improvements" that have only made matters worse. With the massive layoffs now underway the competitive salary they were offering is no longer a secure or reliable pro.

1.0
Sep 9, 2015

The Worst

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great training ground for all things programmatic. There's little to no actual formal training, management or communication so you have to get pretty scrappy to find what you need. Those who have graduated from PubMatic are smarter and better off for it. Used to be some pretty amazing people working there. Most have moved on now, of course. And we came away from the experience feeling this great bond that comes from going into battle together.

Cons

I held off writing a review for a very long time, but after the post that mentioned the inappropriate relationship between the executive and the employee that continually gets promoted out of cycle, was obviously deliberately yanked, I thought it was finally time to put my thoughts to paper. I just couldn't get another alert for yet another phony cheerily positive review written by HR and think that someone might believe that dreck. This company is the worst and these actions are indicative of the lack of moral compass with which it operates. I've worked for some pretty rotten companies in my day but not like this. I literally felt sick coming to work. Processes upon processes, no one taking ownership, everyone working their own agenda, lack of direction and no communication - it starts at the very top and spreads all the way down to the bottom throughout all of the offices like a disease. The continuous display of vanity, poor choices and inability to listen to what everyone else (especially your biggest customers) is saying have made this company fall further and further behind its competitors. They claim to be a product lead company but they can't keep a product team in place and seem to produce no products. Publishers are going elsewhere. The people at the top appear to be more concerned with putting "took this company to an exit" on their resumes than actually running a successful business and the employees suffer and leave. HR clearly stated at the beginning of the year that their primary goal was to make PubMatic the "Best Place to Work". Try making it not a horrible sickening place to work. Try working on employee retention. Someone else said in a previous post that it was like suffering every day. Yes. It. Was.

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