Process
Okta's interview process was one of the smoothest that I have seen thus far. The recruiter was very responsive and accommodating.
I had a phone screening with the recruiter first, where she asked me some basic Java-related questions. I spoke later to a senior engineer who gave me a coding question on CoderPad to find the nth largest element in a list.
I was then called onsite to their SF office for a day-long session with around 10 interviewers. Most interviews had shadow interviewers as well, so I had about 7 interviews onsite.
The recruiter promptly called me the next day to inform me that my skillset did not exactly match their requirements.
Questions
Design a system that keeps two large data sets in sync.
Design/Architect a web service to scale to millions of users.
Code a solution to do a graph traversal / find the shortest path.
Implement an algorithm to perform insert, delete, update, and find a random existing value in a data structure in O(1) time.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Okta Platform Architect role in United States.
Success Rate
Okta's interview process for their Platform Architect roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Okta's Platform Architect interview process in United States.
Okta Work Experiences
- 5.0Great place to workSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeValencia, Valencian Community, SpainJuly 28, 2025Pros: Room for growth, work with scale.Cons: Big company with significant politics.
- 3.0It is what you make of itStaff Site Reliability Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesAugust 20, 2025Pros: It's far from perfect, but if you're dropped on the right team, this can be a great place to work. The tech stack is legacy, but evolving. The product is a core requirement to many companies, giving stability to the company and those performing well inside it.Cons: Management pushed an "accomplishment based reviews" system, which just means you have to track everything you've done in a quarter and write that back to your manager for them to write "+1" or feed into an LLM and get your token cost of living raise. The pay is not great if you are not constantly jockeying for raises/promotions. They've been pushing India and Canada hires hard, leaving teams with no managers or no ICs to work on their FedRAMP infrastructure. They love building their own software, which is a con because FOSS and paid services accomplish the job way better, such as their self-built deployment and CI/CD systems, and costs dozens of engineers and SREs to run them.
- 4.0Good Pay, No ConsSoftware Developer • Current EmployeeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJuly 25, 2024Pros: Base pay for freshers is good enough.Cons: As of now, it seems none.
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