I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Okta in Jul 2024
Interview
Step 1) Interview with internal recruiter. Top level interview to get all expectations in line. Was really incredible to work with!
Step 2) Hiring Manager Interview. Talked with the team lead/hiring manager. More nitty gritty details. Had a nice talk. After the call I had gotten an email that they had liked my technical background and skills and after the talk felt the senior position would be more appropriate.
Step 3) Take home assessment. Easily the best take home. They are super understanding about how much time people realistically have between life, family, and more likely their current job. I was given a week to complete.
Step 4) Team Interview. I was under the impression this would be a more technical interview. However, it was very much not. It felt like the same exact "icebreaker" questions that we had done in the previous interview. Which I don't mind, but considering it had already been done and was touted as a technical so I could show them what I knew. It was very off putting. I want to be very clear: the team was wonderful! I loved talking to everyone there. It's just the process was a little weird.
Also due to scheduling conflicts over a holiday weekend (things happen, it being pushed back was entirely fine with me) I had tried to get them to send over the assessment to finish it over the weekend. The request was quickly denied, which seemed like a huge red flag.
I ended up not getting either position due to my lack of "technical abilities". I never got an opportunity to show them so this definitely rubbed the wrong way.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Okta (Bengaluru) in Jul 2024
Interview
I applied for role Staff Software Engineer (Node JS). In a week got HR response for initial screening. Followed by 1 screen on outcome of that 4 rounds of interview. HR asked me about my current role my skill sets.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Output of basic JS question. Pollyfill to create map of array for JSON object.
[Technical] Print value node of nested JSON object. JSON object had array and json nodes. Basic Todo app in Node JS with Get/GET a Todo/ Update todo/ Create Todo
[System Design] Check if array is strictly increasing order and can be made with atmost 1 modification?
There is a stream process this stream on 100 servers to check if that can stream can be in increasing order.
(Interviewers was not from Javascript background, So were having difficulty in approaching the problem)
How to manager terraform state file? Difference between freestyle pipeline and normal pipeline? Difference between EntryPOINT & CMD in docker? How to check current OS version in linux & current running process?
HR pinged me on Linkedin and scheduled a meet for which she never turned up. Then she came back with another meeting date for which she again did not turn up, thus wasting my time and my sleep TWICE (as the meetings were at PST friendly time 5AM IST). I cannot believe such unprofessional behavior from an Okta HR. She did not bother to reply or apologise for this either.
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