Looks Rosy from the Outside - Anonymous employee Okta Employee Review

3.0
Jul 8, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Great product and Gartner Leader for Identity and Access Management - On track for IPO - Strong C-level executive team - VC backed by Andreesseen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital - Unlimited PTO (double edge sword)

Cons

- Unpleasant office space for sales team in SF - not natural sunlight and stark walls - supposed to move by end of year to a new space. Impacts recruiting and productivity - Politics of a larger public company - Adding middle layer of management creates bureaucracy and unneeded layers. 5 layers between the sales rep and CEO for a 500 person company - Limited people making number in emerging and corporate sales - territories skewed to favor a few that have major metropolitan cities - NYC or Bay Area - Talent and gender gap in Sales and very young sales tenure - Unclear promotional and career track - Talent gap in sales - promoting people into closing sales roles with less than 1 year experience

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Cons

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Cons

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