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
Jul 28, 2015

What a mess.

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Pros

Can't think of one positive experience.

Cons

Shortly after being hired there was a company-wide initiative by HR for employees to write more favorable reviews of the company. I was surprised at first by the amount of current employees that had bad things to say, but having experienced it first hand the stories are all very true. This company is mis-managed and plays favorites with people in positions of leadership that don't have the technical skills to back them up. Collaboration is non-existent and forced when it does occur. Work/life balance is non-existent for the people not in Director roles or workers who seem to have more weight in working from home or taking PTO from seniority. Very biased and unproductive working environment. Technology architecture is a nightmare so even with the best developers the way they built their product makes getting anything done virtually impossible.

1.0
Aug 19, 2015

Bring Transparency and Vision to Center Stage

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Pros

There are so many career opportunities at PubMatic and the company does a good job promoting first-time managers from within. PubMatic employees are generally good people and I made a lot sincere of friends there. You can make a lot of industry connections at PubMatic, especially if you are in a client facing role. They have a lot of great customers who appreciate the partnership and the upside PubMatic brings to the table. I really loved my customers and the relationships we built.

Cons

The turn over is a problem that should come front and center. Due to turn over, some people's morale can swing up and down. It's hard when colleagues and respected leaders leave the business in such a big exodus. The turn-over rate is just tremendous and customers bring it up all the time. "You are my 5th account manager in 1 year." Due to lack of staffing, people are generally over worked and get stressed. In this type of economy, it's silly that PubMatic cannot fulfill open headcount. Retain the top employees not by offering promotion or raises, but by listening to their feedback and putting it in to action. There is a lack of operational discipline in the business overall. In order to get something done for a customer, people often have to loop-in 5 people who sit in different time zones. Escalations management becomes a core part of sales people's jobs and most sellers just don't know how to project manage well. Commanding people's attention in order to resolve customer challenges becomes burdensome and places an undue tax on the teams.

1.0
Apr 15, 2015

High turnover. CEO should clean house.

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Pros

Catered lunches twice a week, great variety of healthy snacks, espresso machine, flexible working hours (people come in between 9 & 10 am), ice cream and beers in the fridge!

Cons

Attrition is high (33%) Most of the employees are new (6-8 months). No communications between departments. Executive team should start noticing the pattern. Why do people leave? There's someone in Management who's "toxic". Always negative, very political. People are starting to talk about how the work environment is "hostile". There's no work-life balance; people get burned out then leave. Even if they don't have a job lined up, they'll leave as long as they're outta there. That's how bad it is.

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