Amazing company, but some red flags
Amazing company, but some red flags
Great culture.
Flourishing stock.
Treats employees well.
No meeting Thursdays.
Friendly and skilled engineers.
Events and hackathons.
Compensation is great.
Managers are amazing; no micromanagement.
The monolithic codebase executed very poorly.
Very little attention was given to proper infrastructure choices.
Sales-driven "Band-Aid" solutions were encouraged.
There was very little room for self-improvement.
A huge chunk of time was wasted waiting for builds and dealing with merging code into production.
It was very risk-adverse. Moonshot projects were nonexistent on most teams, but were encouraged to be done in two-day hackathons.
Okta is growing big. Although Google has a monolith, what made Google so successful is their mindfulness to scaling properly. I feel as if Okta is lacking in this regard, which may be a bad sign.
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Got an email from a recruiter after applying through the school career website. I completed a coding challenge, which was fairly easy, and was invited to an on-site interview. I met 3 engineers and 1 VP during the on-site. The interviews with the en
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I applied through a referral. The process took over two weeks. First, the recruiter set up a call to walk me through the position and team. This was followed by a telephonic interview with one of their staff engineers. The interview was average, b
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I was referred by an employee and liked what I saw and heard about the company. I had a 1-hour phone interview and a 2-hour coding challenge before an onsite interview that lasted 5 hours. Every step of the way, there was at least one question that m
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San Francisco, California, United StatesFebruary 1, 2015Got an email from a recruiter after applying through the school career website. I completed a coding challenge, which was fairly easy, and was invited to an on-site interview. I met 3 engineers and 1 VP during the on-site. The interviews with the en
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United StatesMay 1, 2019I applied through a referral. The process took over two weeks. First, the recruiter set up a call to walk me through the position and team. This was followed by a telephonic interview with one of their staff engineers. The interview was average, b
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United StatesMay 8, 2013I was referred by an employee and liked what I saw and heard about the company. I had a 1-hour phone interview and a 2-hour coding challenge before an onsite interview that lasted 5 hours. Every step of the way, there was at least one question that m
