Okta reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(1,659 total reviews)
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Todd McKinnon

70% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Okta has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,659 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Okta 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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2K reviews
1.0
Jan 28, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits and compensation package.

Cons

Okta went through a reduction in force in August of 2022 and from my knowledge only paid one week of severance for every year of service plus one month of medical benefits. Nothing else. Given so many of us have been hired in recent years this does not leave the people left here feeling very comfortable (and the folks that were let go were high performers). Other companies like Google, Meta, Salesforce, just to name a few, are taking care of their employees after they leave and offering decent severance packages to help them land on their feet. This goes a long way and people are paying attention to this. I would think twice about joining Okta given the volatility in the market right now. You will be left with next to nothing if another RIF occurs.

3.0
Aug 8, 2018

The politics and favoritism runs deep

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The office is nice, great people, always having fun with co-workers. Okta has a great product offering that is easy to believe in.

Cons

The senior management is so political and favoritism is at the heart of everything. It makes it so hard to actually do your job! Its definitely killing productivity and causing really great people to leave. Most of us just want to accomplish things for the greater good of Okta- I wish management would let us.

2.0
Nov 25, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Engineers are very talented and really fun to work with You'll learn a lot WFH Thursdays

Cons

Management doesn't recognize real talents who contributed to the company for many years. (Btw, words of advice: if you want promotion, ask directly, talk all the time, post frequently in chat, and randomly cc the upper management on all your emails. Get the visibility out, and you don't need to be that good to get promoted. Just appear to be good.) Extremely poor immigration support. If you are not a citizen or PR, don't join this company. They'll somehow "forget" filing your green card application for a whole year. The HRs will then tell you that it's because the government is slow, and upper management would buy that. Well, if you have filed the application, and the government takes a long time to process, that is perfectly ok; but you tell me it's the government's fault when you haven't even mailed the application material out to them? The case doesn't even exist! Also, whenever you email the HRs, 90% of the time you never hear back. You have no idea where you are in the process. You need to tell your manager that the HR doesn't get back to you, then the manager needs to go to the HR's desk and ask her to get back to you. The most amazing thing in this is that the relevant HR has screwed over so many immigration cases, some for green card application, some for work visa at another location, and he/she always gets away with it. Upper management will not ask your opinion, but believes in whatever excuses they make. They can fool the management, but we are very familiar with many of the immigration steps and details, so we know when it is the HR's fault and when it's the government being slow.

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