Is Okta a good company to work for?

Okta has an overall rating of 3.6 out of 5, based on over 1,787 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months. 63% of employees would recommend working at Okta to a friend and 60% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Okta have been left by employees working as Senior Customer Success Manager , Sales Development Representative and Sales Development Representative (SDR) .

Does Okta pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Okta employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.0 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Okta. This rating has improved by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Okta?

63% of Okta employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Okta 3.7 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Okta?

Account Executive (130) , Sales Development Representative (SDR) (108) , Sales (63) , Software Engineer (54) , Senior Software Engineer (37) , Solutions Engineer (35) , Customer Success Manager (28) , Director (25) , Enterprise Account Executive (25) , Sales Development Representative (25) , Business Development Representative (BDR) (24) , Sales Representative (20) , Staff Software Engineer (20) , Manager (19) , Marketing (18)

What are the pros of working at Okta according to real employee reviews?

"Co Founders Great products Great people Widely accepted in marketplace and crushing competition" ((in 163 reviews)); "Great Benefits and Comp" ((in 137 reviews)); "Pay is good except for this year the stock portion of salaries was eroded by the stock prices slump." ((in 89 reviews)); "Good work/life balance (for now)" ((in 67 reviews)); "Has a great leadership that cares about the business and the individuals." ((in 66 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Okta according to real employee reviews?

"data breaches and poor management around these" ((in 69 reviews)); "Managers are new and making all their reports start their from scratch" ((in 37 reviews)); "Annual layoffs followed by huge cuts to commission." ((in 32 reviews)); "Very poor management; cliquish; false openness and transparency; a lot of people who don't understand identity in positions of power and authority; upper management out of touch with what employee producers actually do; falsely claiming to want to be global and have a worldview but in a totally Bay Area bubble (which is growing smaller and more insular)." ((in 13 reviews)); "There is no 401k match" ((in 11 reviews))

What are employees saying about Okta layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Okta layoffs and their outlook for job security at Okta in 2026.

What Okta locations have received the highest employee ratings?

Los Angeles , Austin , Denver , Bellevue , Atlanta , Washington , Dallas , Boston , Seattle , New York

Okta reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(1,658 total reviews)

Todd McKinnon

70% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

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4.0

Compensation and benefits

3.8

Diversity & inclusion

3.7

Work/Life balance

3.6

Culture & values

3.3

Career opportunities

3.1

Senior management

Okta has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,658 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

2.0

Mar 31, 2020

Leadership, culture, etc trending down

Customer first

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Genuinely nice CEO, mostly nice employees. Strong customer focus. Solid product

Cons

I've been a part of a lot of fast growth companies, but never have I seen one have such a rapid descent into negative territory as I have over the last 4 years at Okta. The culture went from friendly, collaborative and customer focused to becoming quite political, territorial and having more and more folks with a 'me first' attitude. Some department heads display questionable maturity and/or leadership ethics. The senior leadership team has shifted into what feels more like a typical 'bro' club than what you'd hope to see at a modern organization. While there has been a key female hire (CPO, for example), they lost a key female leader (CCO) and haven't replaced her. There is little meaningful effort to grow female leadership from within, or- if I'm fair- to grow any leadership from within actually (male or female). Diversity efforts are mostly just show at this point. Some teams are more disastrous and broken than others. IT for example- so many business critical/business accelerating projects stall or die on the vine due to this team. Little effort seems to be focused on trying to fix these things as no one is looking across the business at what's needed, they're all too busy managing their own fiefdoms.

1.0

Dec 15, 2015

Depressing place for engineers

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Pre ipo and might go public next year, getting lots of customers , free lunch, work from home Thursdays, convenient location.

Cons

Work culture is bad. If you suck up to the senior management, you rule the place. Engineers are treated like slaves by the management and by the PMs.

1.0

Feb 21, 2022

Terrible Onboarding, No mature leadership, Too worried about managing up vs help new employees be successful

Customer success manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Product. Thats it. Maybe weekly Company meetings. ONE manager on the East Coast recognized the need for addition in person training for CSM duties, but it was frowned upon in the other regions.

Cons

Leadership is so worried about managing up, they are forgetting those that are onboarding in this Zoom culture. They are quick to judge and at that point you are in trouble. Women do NOT support women. Executive leadership is not understanding or knowledgeable about new teams, new employees and onboarding for new members. Immediate leadership does not follow the culture values of transparency, empowerment and more. In this remote culture, there is ZERO effort getting to know a person and how they can best perform. Many new people in the last six months I know are looking for other jobs as they just don't feel supported. Again, immediate leadership ONLY cares about managing up or bottom line vs onboarding new employees to part of the team. Other team mates are NOT encouraged to help new employees unless you happen to have the JOB of "buddy". No team, no leadership trust, no fun, no creativity. Terrible experience and place to work. Management would call me at 7:30 on a Friday night with half baked ideas - during my dinner with my family. Management routinely doesn't pay attention in 1:1 meetings - checking their SLACK, or phone and more. Worst experience I have ever had as a new employee. I feel bad for their customers. Huge changes in the product have been announced but for existing customers it may take one or two years to get updated.

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