Okta reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(1,658 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 1,658 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
3.0
Jan 14, 2023

Costly mistake by the CEO

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Pros

Ok benefits, great tech, happy customers (for the most part)

Cons

Todd made a costly mistake in 2021 by hiring an inexperienced President that ruined the entire organization which will now take years to rebuild. It is actually kind of upsetting how everyone could see this happening from miles away with the exception of Todd. Both the President and CRO are out now which was celebrated across the sales org. But the rebuild will take a while and unfortunately some positions have to be eliminated to make the sales org more productive.

1.0
Mar 9, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Stock price went up when I was working there.

Cons

his is the slowest moving company when it comes to decisions. When a decision is made, be prepared for management to change their mind at the last minute. Okta chooses less superior vendors to do business with to make a business connection and gloat about it...leaving the employees to deal with working with horrible products. IT is a disaster. Multiple requests into IT were never responded to, including IT management. It should not take IT 3 weeks to provision access to an Okta app after you get approval. This team is the epitome of lazy and has one of the poorest management teams I have ever seen. The IT management team needs to be gutted. Be ready for your managers to talk about you behind your back and share personal info and concerns from private meetings with your team.

2.0
Jun 28, 2017

Unwilling to help, no matter how much you ask.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Decent Salary, good opportunities at first but these quickly become fewer and fewer as you go. They feed you.

Cons

Forget work life balance, as well as being able to balance your workload in any other way. Expectations are not laid out and communicated clearly by management and are therefore unreachable by anything other than sheer accident. Annual reviews are based on 2 month periods. Assistance is never given regardless of how many times it's asked for, in fact asking for help can be detrimental to your work experience. Lack of communication and ownership means senior staff are often having to work multiple positions. Promotions are cosmetic and the job never, ever changes - they just add more stuff on until you leave.

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