PubMatic Reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(606 total reviews)

Rajeev Goel

79% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

PubMatic has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 606 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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606 reviews
2.0
22 Feb 2021

Women beware

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great benefits Intelligent CEO Some wonderful people to work with here and there

Cons

There are execs at the company who have a pattern of bullying, harassing, and manipulating women. They also use classic abuser tactics to silence victims from voicing concerns or even leaving the company. "It will be bad for your brand if you were to leave during an IPO" - Fear mongering "You don't want people to think you left because you couldn't hack it" - Victim shaming "You're being to emotional about this, and it will undermine your credibility" - Blame shifting and invalidating "I've talked with the person about this,but give me time" while doing nothing but informing the person who then retaliates - grooming/regrooming. “There seems to be a misunderstanding or miscommunication . X person didn’t mean Y” - gaslighting/invalidating "Women tend to be more emotional about these types of things(to third parties)" - Victim blaming "Those who have had issues in the past were out to get the person" - Victim blaming. This has been a long-running, and well-documented issue however victims are told to move on without any accountability for perpetrators or enablers, without any truth-telling, or without confronting the damage done to people's careers and mental health. Until the audience is actually confronted, it will just be a regular encore performance.

2.0
4 Apr 2016

A Difficult Period Now and Uncertain Future

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Snacks - Catered lunches twice a week - Some great coworkers - Good pay - Mostly a good atmosphere in the office

Cons

In the past six months: - 2 rounds of layoffs - Very high attrition rate with limited roles being back filled - Low morale - Firings outside of layoffs - Salary/raise freeze currently - Not meeting revenue goals - 2 re-orgs *Most importantly it is difficult to see how PubMatic will differentiate itself moving forward as its competitors continue to have the same (and more) publisher connections and product offerings.

1.0
8 Feb 2017

Joke of a company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. Free food - twice a week 2. Good venues for sales conference 3. Fantastic leave / WFH culture - no policy at all

Cons

1. No value of employee. No retention. If you make money for the company or are in client facing role, someone might listen to your issues. If you are in a support role, they will overwork you (under the pretext of efficiency) till you quit. You can be moved under any manager based on management feedback, whether it makes sense or not. 2. HR and the CEO have no insight of ground levels. They just take feedback from VP++. Some of the VPs have too many individual reportees and they dont really know / understand what each person / team does. 3. HR is negligent of the problems faced by employees. E.g. one of the VPs had about 6-7 turnovers in his team for director levels and HR did nothing to prevent them from happening. 4. Customer Success roles are for namesake. Ops teams end up lifting all the burden and teams keep blaming each other for client failure. 5. Product and Engineering think they run the show. And wont take any negative feedback or criticism. You might get fired if you say that loud enough.

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PubMatic Response
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I would like to thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback. I really am sorry that your experience of PubMatic did not meet your expectations or our intentions. The last 12 months have been an extremely charged time at PubMatic with a great deal of change, new leaders joining and rapid growth. We regret that this has left some colleagues felling unsettled and you unhappy. Suggestions for improvements are always very welcome so please do feel free to contact me or the leadership team directly if you want to talk further.
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