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Okta

What is the best part of working at the company?
Smart, hardworking colleagues. Good pay and benefits. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They are an execution focused company to the detriment of their people. Every day they exist is another day both senior and middle management have never been at a company of that size and with that complexity - thus they really don’t know what they are doing. 

IT department is lead by team that wants it to be a family but they are quite political and not the family I would choose to work for anymore. Again, top IT leadership is operating beyond their previous experience and really isn’t great. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Task-focused more than people focused. Don’t be fooled by the fancy marketing materials. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Not with them anymore but it was meetings all- day long. Only time I could do my actual job was outside of normal hours. And now that offices are opening back up those of us who were remote missed an awful lot, including career growth.

At first Okta seemed like the perfect environment to learn and grow while contributing to the success of a company whose product and culture were something to be proud of. Unfortunately the reality fell miles short of that. The marketing team lacks structure when it comes to process, micro-management abounds, and despite their claims of work life balance there is little flexibility and an unspoken expectation that you should be available round the clock. In retrospect the company slogan of "Always On" should've been a massive red flag because that ethos doesn't just apply to their tech it is literally how they approach work. In my time at Okta I came to regard everything said by leadership with the same level of skepticism one would consider Orwell's doublespeak. There was always just enough inane, toilet-book motivation to mask the cut throat corporateering. 

I wouldn't recommend them as an employer. In fact, my advice is to stay away.

Pros

Great sales environment; everyone there wants to be successful and make enough money to survive SF, but that does not mean they selfishly will not lend you a hand if you find yourself in the hole. Open sales floor with a lot of experience. All you need to do is ask and people will open up to you.
Great product; since I have left, I have seen the stock soar. This tells me that the product has really come into … 
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Cons

There has been a lot of trial and error in terms of structuring and company layout. You need to be able to roll with the punches here as restructuring often goes hand in hand with poor communication.

The sales training was nonexistent when I arrived. It was good and bad as you really had to figure it out. But when I asked in the interview for specific sales training and they said yes, I was disappointed with the reality.

Advice to Management

Don't pass the buck...own it

What is the best part of working at the company?
Some great employees and colleagues.  Interesting work. The industry is interesting too. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Too many exec/leadership exits, managers stack rank employees by performance (which feels like high-school popularity throwback) and many managers are not very good at managing people. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Evolving to be internally competitive and not supportive of each other

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Too many meetings over zoom.  Not enough time to focus.

As a high school senior, most businesses do not believe in youth workers to be as efficient as their current workers. Even though our internship was not as long as we hoped; workers at OKTA encourages my fellow classmates and I to overcome fears, become comfortable in  offices with older individuals, and most importantly, how to make sure that we were able to enjoy ourselves while being professional.

Working at Okta has been absolutely great thus far. After 6 months, I have personally seen the things they told me about in the interviews (mainly being opportunity for advancement). 

The work life balance is excellent - work hard, play hard.

Auth0 acquisition was bungled, and there were a few other issues ongoing throughout engineering and sales which encouraged me to leave. Whilst it wasn't true when I started, I do think Okta lost it's way when it came to finishing and shipping products, and the acquisition did come off a little desperate. Do think it's still possible to learn and get something out of for your career

At the top C-Level the company strategy and product is great!  The benefits are good and my peers were smart, supportive and fun!  But sadly  some Director level managers.  do no empower their employees, believing in a micro-management approach. Really a bit weird in this day and age.

From onboarding to offboarding - they make the process easy and everyone is very respectful and enjoyable to work with. My team and cross-team members were a pleasure to work with and everyone was there to help each other out. They \stand by their culture and make sure you are taken care of. 

Okta provides a unique approach to delivering Identity and Application Security controls as a multi-tenant cloud service.  The IAM space though is very competitive.  Okta is still a very new name, especially in the Southeast and the adoption of cloud services is still somewhat lagging.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Sales representative 8 salaries reported	$77,130 per year
Account executive 6 salaries reported	$274,167 per year
Software engineer 5 salaries reported	$160,400 per year
Solutions engineer 5 salaries reported	$238,000 per year
Customer success manager 13 salaries reported	$145,708 per year

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