I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Okta (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2016
Interview
After the initial HR phone call, was given a list of questionnaire regarding my experience .couple of days later the HR scheduled phone technical interview . I felt the interviewer was rude and his mobile phone kept buzzing in my ear as I was writing/explaining the code. Seems to me he was exchanging texts while we were on call.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It was a simple coding challenge in 2 parts- 1. Given an unsorted positive integers Array, find the maximum integer. Write test cases to test it. He wanted the test cases from user perspective, which he didn't tell earlier . I was approaching it from both the user and design perspective. He had a rude way of telling that.
2. for the same Array find the first and second largest integer. - He kept on saying - I don't care about the solution, dude ! Even after explaining/refactoring my approach he didn't understand it.
A recruiter from okta reached out to me on LinkedIn.
As usual he asked me few times available to chat.
I suggested him few times that week and guess what he set a call for next week. I was pretty OK.
1 Hour before the call, I get an email saying he is overbooked, and scheduled my interview next week without asking for my availability. I understand it happens so I suggested great sounds good talk to you next week.
Guess what on next appointment, 30 mins before my call he said he is rescheduling interview again.
I was interested in learning more about okta but cannot work for company which is not professional or respectful to candidates.
Applied through the career site. Received initial reach out by a recruiter and subsequently had a phone interview with the hiring manager. It was a quick call and was moved to the next steps of the process which was an onsite interview. The interview lasted a few hours. Got a good snapshot of the team and was able to make a fairly good assessment of the culture and people at Okta. Exciting times ahead for the company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me what areas of HR you are interested in? What areas are strengths? Why Okta?