Okta reviews

3.6

61% would recommend to a friend

(1,672 total reviews)
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Todd McKinnon

70% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Okta has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,672 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
5.0
Jul 12, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Customer Support Team is led by fantastic leadership that both listens and cares about what you have to say, is interested in your career trajectory (it was even brought up in my interview which is one of the reasons I joined the company), and invests heavily in team engagement and improvement. - The Support team is the best of the best. I have the pleasure of working with some of the most motivated, intelligent, and engaged team members that anyone could ask for. - There is never a sense of "working alone" or unwillingness to assist from any coworker. Truly a great team to be in! - The new employees are consistently coming in better than their predecessors. Continuing this trend will make sure the team always is the best team to work in. - The work continues to grow in complexity and for those that like to continually learn and be challenged, there is no better environment than Okta! - Salary and benefits are great, and annual reviews to keep compensation competitive are better than any other place I have worked. - Kitchens are now rotating stock with new food to keep things feeling fresh. - Growth opportunities continue to expand, with new roles and positions opening up on an increasing pace.

Cons

- If you aren't ready for a challenge, this may not be the place for you. - The company is growing fast. This leads to plenty of growing pains and problems, which the company is working hard to scale at the current level. - Some of the team members have a personal problem against management that they won't let go due to issues that have primarily passed before I joined the team. When prompted about issues that could be fixed, more often than not, complaints that are shared are based on a personal view that doesn't consider other coworkers or the team as a whole. Luckily, you'll find that these tend to be a small minority of the group, and the newer employees are both very satisfied and engaged in their roles, actively working towards creating a better work environment.

2.0
Jan 1, 2026

Stay away

Recommend
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Pros

Pay, benefits, and some good individual contributors.

Cons

The entire CS leadership team from VP to managers. Leadership claims to champion a “high-performance” culture. In practice, it’s closer to a shark tank: the loudest voices rise, and backstabbing is rewarded. Nowhere is this more obvious than on the enterprise side, where promotions visibly change people. CS is heading in the wrong direction, and everyone dreads the annual February hunger games. Get out while you still can.

3.0
Aug 20, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

It's far from perfect, but if you're dropped on the right team, this can be a great place to work. The tech stack is legacy, but evolving. The product is a core requirement to many companies, giving stability to the company and those performing well inside it.

Cons

Management pushed an "accomplishment based reviews" system which just means you have to track everything you've done in a quarter and write that back to your manager for them write "+1" or feed into an LLM and get your token cost of living raise. The pay is not great if you are not constantly jockeying for raises/promotions. They've been pushing India and Canada hires hard, leaving teams with no managers, or no ICs to work on their FedRAMP infrastructure. They love building their own software - which is a con because FOSS and paid services accomplish the job way better, such as their self-built deployment and CI/CD systems, and costs dozens of engineers and SREs to run them.

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