Pubmatic Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Pubmatic full-time for more than a year

Pros – Chance to learn more skills
Nice Work - Life Balance,
Satisfactory Compensation/ Salary,
Regular Events,

Cons – Can not find one till now.

Advice to Senior Management – I am lucky to get nice managers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Pubmatic full-time for more than a year

Pros – smart people
talented execs
wealth of experience in exec team
building the organization

Cons – too many changes
poor comp plans
turnover is ridiculous!
quick to make rash decisions
sell products before they are market ready

Advice to Senior Management – don't jump, look first! protect your reputation and that of the company by selling only what you can deliver. side with your employees, they work hard for you every day

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Pubmatic full-time for more than a year

Pros – - Company invented key technology
- Huge market opportunity and really only a few competitors (Rubicon, AppNexus, Google/Admeld)
- Probably will have an exit
- Were some very talented people there (but they usually left)

Cons – - Turnover is literally 75% every 6 months in the CA office
- Huge rift between Product & Engineering (in India) and rest of the company
- Leadership could care less about an employee's career path
- Underpaid "workers" overpaid "managers"
- No capable middle management
- Missed their chance to sell to Google (before they bought Admeld)

Advice to Senior Management – 1. If you pay peanuts, you'll get monkeys
2. Take care of your employees. The turnover there is HUGE! That should be a big warning sign. Without the people the company is nothing more than a logo and a building.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Pubmatic full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – People are friendly and open to suggestions but eod they do what ever they feel like. This makes us look stupid. Culture was very good before where we used to have flexible working time,cooperation,innovation and openness. But now we are gradually loosing it and it doesn't have the charm before.

Cons – Please dont be turn the fresh environment into a more corporate one.
New rules shouldn't be forced on employees,they should gradually adapt themselves

Advice to Senior Management – Please do monitor the life of the employee inside out..

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Pubmatic full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - Excellent culture
- fast decision making
- approachable senior management
- run timely efforts to identify problem areas and immediately acts upon it
- has acquired talents that's great working with and good leanings experience
- flexible work hours
- agile
- customer focused
- no non-sense policies

Cons – - poor product managers' team
- poor User experience staff
- appreciation for good work is almost nil

Advice to Senior Management – Doing excellent with fixing existing problems as well as capitalising fast on market opportunities; keep it up!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Pubmatic full-time for less than a year

Pros – one can learn a lot and enjoy at the same time

Cons – No cons till so far...

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Pubmatic full-time for less than a year

Pros – 1) Good salary
2) Trained and smart recruiters
3) Lot of activities, seldom amusement park
4) Expensive gifts

Cons – 1) Good for freshers
2) Ego driven and led by co-founder's clouts
3) No vision and planning done for future, everything decided at 11th hour
4) Negative influence and opportunist .... will pull you down anytime

Advice to Senior Management – For heaven sake come out of the cocoon and realize the need of the hour. Don't presume your move will always be right ..... it may be otherwise too. Realize the potential of talented people in the organization not those who always agree "Yes Sir"

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Pubmatic full-time for more than a year

Pros – Job-Seekers
For Job Seekers, its a good opportunity. The organization is evolving from a start-up to process oriented work place. As the organization grows, the earlier you enter, the faster you will rise up the ladder. PubMatic is totally focused & dedicated towards I.P.O. with-in next one or two years (Hopefully, by 2013).

Growth & Management
If you have got talent & willing to give everything for growth, just knock on V.P.'s/C.T.O's (co-founders) door. You will be given exciting & challenging problems to solve. For first few tasks, you will to find time your-self. Once you have won the trust, you will be given dedicated time for much bigger challenges.
Everyone @ PubMatic has observed this from time to time.

The Leads
Most leads have been with PubMatic for very long time. They have aqcuried the skills of good leader ship under the guidance of the co-founders. They are very understanding & helpful. Trust the decisions they make. If something goes wrong, they are always there to fix things up as long as you are communicating with them.

Cons – If you are looking for start-up environment, PubMatic is not the place for you. As PubMatic grows, you will continue to see more & more processes. One most notable change has been introduction of not so friendly HR policies.

The change in working environment is evident & you are likely to find not so happy old employees because of these changes.

Key worrying factor: The requirements do not freeze, but the delivery time-line does.

The "Higher-Management" team which sits in US is always under the impression that almost every-one is free of work @ development center.

Advice to Senior Management – For Top Management: Being surrounded by people with "Yes Sir" attitude will only boast your ego & does not really contribute to growth of the PubMatic.

For Development Center Management Team: Always trust your own people with responsibilities before looking out. Getting new people on top of your core talent pool only creates a new layer that does not really understand the PubMatic culture.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Pubmatic full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Nice environment to work, good people, good management,

Cons – No Advice to the management, doing well !!!!!!

Advice to Senior Management – Management is doing well!!!!!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Pubmatic full-time

Pros – Pubmatic is one of the older ad tech platforms so the company is well known and has good funding. The staff is generally smart and fun. The technology is interesting and they have a good client list.

Cons – PubMatic has zero work-life balance. This may be the norm in this industry, but at Pubmatic, management expects everyone to be available 24-7 because most projects and deadlines are arbitrary and unplanned. Even when crazy deadlines are met and client projects are miraculously completed within unreasonable timeframes, there is little to no appreciation from management. Also, there's no vacation policy which is sold as "unlimited vacation." The reality is that vacation time is discouraged.

Advice to Senior Management – Consider appreciating the efforts of your staff instead of treating people like minions. Recognize that people have lives, families, obligations and interests outside of work.