Is Okta a good company to work for?

Okta has an overall rating of 3.6 out of 5, based on over 1,810 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 61% of employees would recommend working at Okta to a friend and 59% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Okta have been left by employees working as Senior Customer Success Manager , Sales Development Representative and Sales Development Representative (SDR) .

Does Okta pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Okta employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.0 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Okta. This rating has improved by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Okta?

61% of Okta employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Okta 3.7 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Okta?

Account Executive (131) , Sales Development Representative (SDR) (109) , Sales (63) , Software Engineer (56) , Senior Software Engineer (40) , Solutions Engineer (35) , Customer Success Manager (28) , Director (25) , Enterprise Account Executive (25) , Sales Development Representative (25) , Business Development Representative (BDR) (24) , Staff Software Engineer (22) , Sales Representative (20) , Manager (19) , Marketing (18)

What are the pros of working at Okta according to real employee reviews?

"Co Founders Great products Great people Widely accepted in marketplace and crushing competition" ((in 156 reviews)); "Great Benefits and Comp" ((in 134 reviews)); "Pay is good except for this year the stock portion of salaries was eroded by the stock prices slump." ((in 89 reviews)); "Good work/life balance (for now)" ((in 82 reviews)); "The team was great and very transparent about the expectations." ((in 66 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Okta according to real employee reviews?

"Bad management all around." ((in 68 reviews)); "Some of the Managers have no clue on identity but still allocated Director title" ((in 37 reviews)); "Annual layoffs followed by huge cuts to commission." ((in 33 reviews)); "Very poor management; cliquish; false openness and transparency; a lot of people who don't understand identity in positions of power and authority; upper management out of touch with what employee producers actually do; falsely claiming to want to be global and have a worldview but in a totally Bay Area bubble (which is growing smaller and more insular)." ((in 18 reviews)); "A bit bloated in middle management and the BT org could use an overhaul." ((in 13 reviews))

What are employees saying about Okta layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Okta layoffs and their outlook for job security at Okta in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Okta locations?

San Francisco , Washington , Chicago , New York , Seattle , Bellevue , San Jose , Austin , Los Angeles , Boston , Dallas , Atlanta , Denver , Salt Lake City , Raleigh , California City , San Diego , Miami , Houston , Nashville , South San Francisco , Philadelphia , San Francisco , Phoenix , Detroit , Sacramento , Baltimore , Jacksonville , Tampa , Sweden

Okta reviews

3.6

61% would recommend to a friend

(1,677 total reviews)

Todd McKinnon

70% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.0

Compensation and benefits

3.8

Diversity & inclusion

3.7

Work/Life balance

3.6

Culture & values

3.3

Career opportunities

3.0

Senior management

Okta has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,677 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Okta employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2K reviews

4.0

Aug 13, 2024

Great People Great Place

Sales development representative (sdr)

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Comp, people, benefits, brand name

Cons

M&A struggles, leadership changes, product-market fit in specific geo's

3.0

Aug 11, 2024

Good company but challenging to sell to strategic accounts

Strategic account executive

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

1. Great work/life balance 2. Smart and hardworking SE’s

Cons

1. Constant turnover at all levels including executive leadership 2. Extremely difficult to sell to strategic accounts - multiple team members closed $0 for an entire fiscal year 3. Strategic AE quotas are extremely high - less than 10% of AE’s hit quota 4. Strategic AE comp plans are a joke. 20% of OTE is based on selling multi year deals. This is a challenge if you sell upsells/add on’s because customers do not want to early renew w/o significant discounting.

1.0

Aug 9, 2024

Look elsewhere

Customer success manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

-product improves every year -Auth0 and Spera purchase good -they’re looking into ID proofing to be more well rounded -intelligent teammates -has ESP -has big logos -big federal customers

Cons

-upper manager and middle management sinking the ship, all upper management received a promotion in titles -Splunk hires in management are awful -lots of toxicity in CSM and AE worlds -lots of bad deals were made post c*vid resulting in current churn and slow YOY growth -no transparency -lay offs are new normal, 1-2x a year, expect another for new fiscal -HR is bad -little to no upward mobility -pay stagnant -AEs are revolving door, many awful hires -Microsoft eating our lunch due to company’s consolidation -new review system for contributors to stack rank is creating a lot of brown noises. -work loads have increased tremendously

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