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Great people and great product

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Okta for 2 years
July 9, 2015
5.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros
  • Great collaboration between Ops, Engineering, and QA. Makes it easy to get stuff done.
  • Minimal politics at the engineering level.
  • Great culture, smart and friendly coworkers with no egos to get in the way.
  • Pretty easy to shift between teams if you get bored or want to work on different skills.
  • Lenient PTO and work from home policies.
  • Fantastic support from upper management.
  • Very successful product and the company is going somewhere.
Cons
  • middling benefits (no 401k matching, no gym memberships, etc.)
  • heavyweights are starting to enter the field
  • rapid growth leads to more work than people at times
Advice to Management

Make sure to keep the culture open and communication easy.

It would be terrible if we ended up structured like the companies we're trying to replace.

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