Joke of a company - Anonymous employee PubMatic Employee Review

1.0
Feb 8, 2017
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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