In the first round, I spoke with a recruiter who inquired about my general details and experience. The second round involved a live coding problem with a team member from the department I applied to
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I was asked to solve a LeetCode medium question live.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Okta (Toronto, ON) in May 2024
Interview
I applied online for a position, and the recruiter contacted me to arrange a 1:1 Zoom interview to discuss the qualifications. The recruiter was nice, friendly, and promised to get back to me within a day or so. The next day, I received an email asking for my availability for an hour-long, all-in-one interview with the hiring manager. This interview was mostly behavioral and focused on my previous experience. I felt confident about passing this step, so I immediately emailed the recruiter and coordinator to share my experience and inquire about the next steps, but I received no response.
A few days later, I received an email from CodeSignal inviting me to complete a coding challenge for Okta. I immediately emailed the recruiter and coordinator to confirm the invitation was legitimate, but again, there was no response. I completed the assessment the same day, passing all the test cases, and once again emailed the recruiter and coordinator to inform them, but received no response.
After a few more days, I received an email stating that they had decided to move forward with other candidates, despite the hiring manager telling me that they had 3-4 open roles and would hire anyone who was good. I replied politely, expressing my disappointment and requesting feedback, but I am still waiting for an answer.
What frustrates me is not the rejection, but the lack of responsiveness from the company. My advice: don't waste your time with this company—they are not trustworthy.
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Question 1
The interview with the hiring manager was primarily behavioral and focused on my experience.
First coding question: Find the element with the lowest total distance to other elements in a sorted array.
Second coding question: I don't recall the exact problem, but it was a relatively easy LeetCode problem.
Third coding question: Given a string, find the shortest string that can be achieved by adding characters to the end to make it a palindrome.
Last coding question: Make a GET request and parse the JSON response.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Okta in Feb 2024
Interview
I was referred to this position. Even after completing all the question in all the rounds I got a reject. I felt my interview went pretty good. First interview with HM went well. Ask mostly tell me about time kinda questions. Second interviewer, I could feel the moment he saw me and made a weird face.. I knew this was not good. He asked two questions, I completed both. Third round, was sql based question and java based question. I felt the interviewer was taking an interview for first time.. based they were not prepared. I got a reject and based on feedback it definitely seemed the guy in second round rejected me.. with very generalized review. Overall I thought the HM was good but the hiring team/committee could have been better.
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Question 1
Tell me about a time when you had added a bug in prod and how did you solve it