I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Okta in Mar 2019
Interview
Recruiter sent coding challenge, I completed it a few days later. I sent followup emails to the recruiters for 2 weeks after with no response. Several more weeks later, a recruiter sends a request for interview.
Interviewer initially said "you can make the code as messy as it needs to be to work, I can understand it". They kept interrupting me as I was speaking to tell me how something I'm saying/doing to understand the problem is unnecessary. After solving the problem, they complained at how "if-elsey" the answer was. The interviewer then went and edited my code themself, to add extra return statements and extra "else" clauses. They told me I should've saved a boolean for clauses that were checked twice. They complained about how messy the code was, reneging on what they initially said.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an existing function that takes a regex string and a word string and returns whether the word string matches the regex in the regex string (i.e. fn("a.c", "abc") will return true), add the regex asterisk operator (*) functionality.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Okta (Toronto, ON) in Oct 2018
Interview
Entire process took way too long - about 3 months?
I was sent a take home challenge, then did a first interview. No problems so far.
Was asked for a final round interview, got it scheduled, and then on the day of the interview I received an email saying something came up and we need to reschedule. Didn't get any updates for another few weeks.
Finally rescheduled the final round for over a month past the original date...and went through all 3 back to back interviews and only then was I told what team I'd be on, which I wasn't interested in joining for other reasons.
Emailed them again and they said that since it's been so long since the interview process started, most positions are already filled and I wasn't able to find a position in a different team. So I asked for my candidacy to be withdrawn.
Overall the most disorganized interview process I've ever been through. I think I've been relatively patient with the whole ordeal, but the lack of communication here was unacceptable.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Okta in Sep 2017
Interview
The initial coding challenge, followed by one phone interview and then a 3-hour interview with 3 different interviewers. They ghosted me after the interview despite my repeated emails to both my recruiters.