Okta

I work on the Auth0 side, which has a better culture afaik, and engineers are treated well in my experience.

• My manager is very kind and chill.
• Everyone on my team is treated like an adult.
• Working alongside and learning from top engineering talent.
• Getting exposed to cutting-edge tech and product challenges at scale.
• Weekly all-hands and lots of demos so you learn a lot about the company and products.
• Hack culture (hackathons).

Your experience will largely depend on how critical your team's services are and how empathetic your manager and up are.

In the past two years, there have been layoffs.

Todd, keep asking tough questions. The way you put people on the spot and throw curveballs shows how dedicated you really are to our value to customers.

You also welcome hard questions and appreciate being corrected when needed. To me, this reinforces our "idea lab" culture at Okta, where it's normal to challenge others and be challenged yourself.

Great CEO, in my opinion. I might have recurring nightmares about being called up in an all-hands, though. 😂