Okta

Full Stack Developer Interview Experience

December 1, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online. The process took 2 weeks.

1- screening interview with an interviewer
2- coding challenge to take home and do it for 2 days
3- HR/Team Manager interview to ask you more about technical understanding
4- build an MVP with your potential team
5- congratulations you've got your job offer

Questions

First interview: Tell me about yourself - and that is it. They didn't ask me anything about my projects.

Asked if I'm being interviewed with other companies currently.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Okta Full Stack Developer role.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

Okta's interview process for their Full Stack Developer roles is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral0%

Negative50%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Okta's Full Stack Developer interview process.

Okta Work Experiences

Innovative Tech, High Pressure

Full Stack Developer • Former Employee

Pros: Strong focus on innovation and technology.

Cons: There is always pressure to stay ahead of the competition.

Innovative Tech, High Pressure

Full Stack Developer • Former Employee

Pros: Strong focus on innovation and technology.

Cons: There is always pressure to stay ahead of the competition.

Good challenges, growth opportunities, great pay, and a very nice office

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Pros: Great co-workers, lots of smart people, though most of your team members will likely be at HQ in San Francisco or San Jose. New Toronto office is very nice, with good perks. Toronto co-workers are great, from a breadth of different teams. Very flexible hours, and work from home once a week. Excellent base pay. Honest and candid leadership. Recognition is given regularly and properly. Lots of opportunity for growth. Well-defined career tracks (technical & management). People, in its great majority, put a genuine effort in improving what's not good enough.

Cons: - Benefits (especially vacation) are very basic, even when they didn't have to be, to the point of being annoying sometimes. - HR and workplace management are all in HQ (San Francisco), so getting their attention on many of the pain points around benefits/office issues can be very challenging. - Work/life balance can be tricky with a Pacific-Time based team. - The complicated dev environment & monolithic architecture of the product sometimes complicate the simplest of tasks. - Not the fastest brand of agile is followed in the dev process.

Good challenges, growth opportunities, great pay, and a very nice office

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Pros: Great co-workers, lots of smart people, though most of your team members will likely be at HQ in San Francisco or San Jose. New Toronto office is very nice, with good perks. Toronto co-workers are great, from a breadth of different teams. Very flexible hours, and work from home once a week. Excellent base pay. Honest and candid leadership. Recognition is given regularly and properly. Lots of opportunity for growth. Well-defined career tracks (technical & management). People, in its great majority, put a genuine effort in improving what's not good enough.

Cons: - Benefits (especially vacation) are very basic, even when they didn't have to be, to the point of being annoying sometimes. - HR and workplace management are all in HQ (San Francisco), so getting their attention on many of the pain points around benefits/office issues can be very challenging. - Work/life balance can be tricky with a Pacific-Time based team. - The complicated dev environment & monolithic architecture of the product sometimes complicate the simplest of tasks. - Not the fastest brand of agile is followed in the dev process.

Great learning experience

Software Engineering Intern • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

Pros: + Competitive pay. Intern salary exceeds that of some established companies. + Fast recruiting process. Went from interview to offer letter in under 3 weeks. + In the heart of the city. + Weekly all-hands meetings so no one is left in the dark. + Treated like a regular employee. Attend the same meetings, held to the same standards. + Great set of intern activities. + Opportunity to learn from an amazing set of people.

Cons: - Housing stipend would have been a nice perk. - Better lunches/catering all days of the week.

Great learning experience

Software Engineering Intern • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

Pros: + Competitive pay. Intern salary exceeds that of some established companies. + Fast recruiting process. Went from interview to offer letter in under 3 weeks. + In the heart of the city. + Weekly all-hands meetings so no one is left in the dark. + Treated like a regular employee. Attend the same meetings, held to the same standards. + Great set of intern activities. + Opportunity to learn from an amazing set of people.

Cons: - Housing stipend would have been a nice perk. - Better lunches/catering all days of the week.

Innovative Tech, High Pressure

Full Stack Developer • Former Employee

Pros: Strong focus on innovation and technology.

Cons: There is always pressure to stay ahead of the competition.

4.0
Innovative Tech, High Pressure
Full Stack Developer • Former Employee
June 23, 2023
Pros: Strong focus on innovation and technology.
Cons: There is always pressure to stay ahead of the competition.

Good challenges, growth opportunities, great pay, and a very nice office

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Pros: Great co-workers, lots of smart people, though most of your team members will likely be at HQ in San Francisco or San Jose. New Toronto office is very nice, with good perks. Toronto co-workers are great, from a breadth of different teams. Very flexible hours, and work from home once a week. Excellent base pay. Honest and candid leadership. Recognition is given regularly and properly. Lots of opportunity for growth. Well-defined career tracks (technical & management). People, in its great majority, put a genuine effort in improving what's not good enough.

Cons: - Benefits (especially vacation) are very basic, even when they didn't have to be, to the point of being annoying sometimes. - HR and workplace management are all in HQ (San Francisco), so getting their attention on many of the pain points around benefits/office issues can be very challenging. - Work/life balance can be tricky with a Pacific-Time based team. - The complicated dev environment & monolithic architecture of the product sometimes complicate the simplest of tasks. - Not the fastest brand of agile is followed in the dev process.

4.0
Good challenges, growth opportunities, great pay, and a very nice office
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
July 25, 2017
Pros: Great co-workers, lots of smart people, though most of your team members will likely be at HQ in San Francisco or San Jose. New Toronto office is very nice, with good perks. Toronto co-workers are great, from a breadth of different teams. Very flexible hours, and work from home once a week. Excellent base pay. Honest and candid leadership. Recognition is given regularly and properly. Lots of opportunity for growth. Well-defined career tracks (technical & management). People, in its great majority, put a genuine effort in improving what's not good enough.
Cons: - Benefits (especially vacation) are very basic, even when they didn't have to be, to the point of being annoying sometimes. - HR and workplace management are all in HQ (San Francisco), so getting their attention on many of the pain points around benefits/office issues can be very challenging. - Work/life balance can be tricky with a Pacific-Time based team. - The complicated dev environment & monolithic architecture of the product sometimes complicate the simplest of tasks. - Not the fastest brand of agile is followed in the dev process.

Great learning experience

Software Engineering Intern • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

Pros: + Competitive pay. Intern salary exceeds that of some established companies. + Fast recruiting process. Went from interview to offer letter in under 3 weeks. + In the heart of the city. + Weekly all-hands meetings so no one is left in the dark. + Treated like a regular employee. Attend the same meetings, held to the same standards. + Great set of intern activities. + Opportunity to learn from an amazing set of people.

Cons: - Housing stipend would have been a nice perk. - Better lunches/catering all days of the week.

5.0
Great learning experience
Software Engineering Intern • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
July 9, 2015
Pros: + Competitive pay. Intern salary exceeds that of some established companies. + Fast recruiting process. Went from interview to offer letter in under 3 weeks. + In the heart of the city. + Weekly all-hands meetings so no one is left in the dark. + Treated like a regular employee. Attend the same meetings, held to the same standards. + Great set of intern activities. + Opportunity to learn from an amazing set of people.
Cons: - Housing stipend would have been a nice perk. - Better lunches/catering all days of the week.

Okta Interview Questions

Simple Bank System

Simulate a simple bank system that supports basic operations like deposit, withdraw, and check balance for different accounts. You will implement methods to handle these transactions and ensure validity based on account balances and existence.

All Nodes Distance K in Binary Tree

Find all nodes in a binary tree that are exactly K distance away from a given target node. The distance is measured by the number of edges between the nodes.

TreesGraphsRecursionBinary Search

LRU Cache

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

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