Okta reviews

The mobility team is a mess. The engineering management lacks leadership and vision for how to evolve the product, grow the team, and effectively compete with the other OMM vendors. This is made worse by the incompetent product management there. Okta should have a tremendous advantage over the existing OMM vendors because it's anchored by the premier identity management and SSO product. It's an incredibly opportunity missed to dominate that vertical and Todd needs to shake that area up. Engineering managers by-and-large are not great. Greg (the VP) tries to do well but is the more or less the only engineering manager who has the skills needed to help grow a team. There are a couple others as well, but most of engineering management either lacks the emotional intelligence to understand how to keep engineers happy and productive, hands-off to an extreme, is really an engineer promoted far too fast, or has some other major flaw that keeps them from being an effective manager. Despite the fact that we have career tracks, career development is basically nonexistent in-so-far as working with managers to acquire new skills and build up careers. Luckily Okta has some fairly good technical leads and product leads for the teams, otherwise engineers would just spin in circles. Some attrition in a fast-growing company is acceptable and perhaps even desirable to get fresh blood in and open positions for them to grow into, but a lot of the attrition at Okta comes from bad management. That is a real bummer.

Unless you are an Engineer, do not apply here. Upper management has little insight or care about the work environment of customer facing roles, routinely asking employees to work 11+ hour days to try and accomplish the 16+ hours worth of work assigned to try and run the company at the pace upper management desires. Middle management achieved roles based on tenure at the company, not necessarily from performance. Company morale is low very little work life balance is a contributing factor. VERY high turnover.