Okta reviews

- In a time when every Silicon Valley company values their engineering talent, Okta management still lives in this dystopian world where they are fine treating them like replaceable commodities. - There is no real process to assess performance, if a bunch of people leave - management gets insecure and promotes a bunch of people. If people don't leave - management plays delay tactics and creates fake promotion promises to frustrate the engineers to leave. Rinse and Repeat every year. - Inconsistent, reactionary and fear driven management culture creates this weird atmosphere where an outage results in management running around like head-less chickens looking to place blame on anyone down the ladder. - Product Management arm twists Engineering management to bow to their will. Result? Engineers get burnt out trying to meet deliverables and eventually leave.

I could not agree more with another reviewer who said this company is run like an enterprise company: Okta is a 300+ company but it feels like working for a company that have 5000+ employees and have been around for 10+ years. The departments within Okta are very silo-ed and there is little to no teamwork effort. Each department care about their own and if you happen to involve another department for a company-wide project, it becomes more like "this ain't my job or responsibilities" and the meetings can become very hostile. In a big company you may see this because, well, the company is way too big. However, this usually happens in "pockets" instead of company wide. For a 300+ company, this become more visible and can make your job very difficult. Add this to the "elitist" mentality and you can become very unhappy working for Okta. There are some people who think that, since they joined early and built something for the company, they can do whatever they want and are "protected". The result? See above. This is supposed to be a start-up, with teamwork mentality and the feeling of working together to build the company for greater good. This is the key reason people leave large enterprise company and joined startups, the stock options is just bonus. If Okta is run like an enterprise company, then what is the point of joining this company? At least in an enterprise company you have far better benefits - Okta does not give bonus or raise on an annual basis, no 401K matching and very expensive health care premium. TIPS: during interview, ask your interviewer to provide an example of how his/her department collaborate with other departments and how did he/she did it.