I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Okta (New York, NY) in Apr 2018
Interview
I applied online. I received a response a few weeks later for a quick phone conversation. That went well. I then had a talk with the hiring manager which went well and was instructed to complete a couple of questions on a "Sales Engineering Challenge" worksheet. Some of it involved coding, some of it involved using Okta's product. There really wasn't much help provided in completing the assignments and much of the work I did was looking at their documentation and figuring it out from there. Some questions were pretty straightforward from reading the documentation, others were not.
When I was ready to do a presentation on the challenges that were given to me, I had a conference call. There were five different people on the call. I thought I was just going to do a presentation and answer questions about it afterward but that wasn't the case. Immediately, I started getting questions not covered on the actual challenge I was assigned and it was assumed I knew everything about their product as well as everything about SSO and OIDC. I answered most questions as best as I could but was thrown off by the whole interview format and constant interruptions. Later on, it became evident that no one on the call except the hiring manager knew that I had been assigned specific challenges to complete. All in all, it ended up being a colossal waste of time since I had to prepare so much to do the presentation. To make matters worse, they didn't even follow up with me knowing that I put a lot of work into their challenges. I put in a lot of work recording parts of my presentation for brevity, spun up an Amazon EC2 instance to complete part of the work, and completed every challenge. Okta left a very bad impression on me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Integrate Okta with an on-premise Active Directory or LDAP
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Okta (Londres, Inglaterra) in Jan 2016
Interview
I had a phone call with leadership in UK to introduce ourself, after that there was a Skype meeting with Senior leadership from the US. Based on these conversations and rough exploration of benefits I was invited for 4 more short interviews in the UK with other sales leadership and other senior sales engineers. It is not easy to do these interviews, but Okta is very open in what they will expect from you and there is a open two way conversation that allows you to see if there is a fit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
As a SE you are working with customers, account executives and management. Please prioritize these when deciding what to work on at the end of a quarter.