Inept Management , un clear leadership with a hint of toxicity - Senior Database Reliability Engineer Okta Employee Review

1.0
Jun 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

+ Most team memebers are nice, except for a select few situated in the main Pacific Time zone + Other teams at okta are really good and helpful. Really good professionals IMHO + This team used to be Nice when the team was being lead by a former employee, it was later taken over by the manager who is quiet horrible at understanding and assigning tasks + learnt a lot about security, although all my learnings lasted only about the first 2 years.

Cons

- Un clear mandates from leadership which changes every other month - Manager is King, Literally a manager can make things up and they never get challenged. - Over assignment of projects with un achievable deadlines were common towards then end . - segregation wiithin the teams as only a hanful are allowed to make decisions . These Segregated memebers were rewarded by better project selections and tasks as the rest were givven remedial busy tasks - Finger Pointing culture when it comes to certain tasks - Manager gets aggressive where its not warranted, and does not respect boundries during Doctor visits. - Manager is explosively retaliatory and creates horrible toxic culture in private chats. - No acknolodgements for achievements as they were given , instead your work gets reported as accomplished by other team members. - No room to grow as Not even yearly evaluations are handled factually. - Manager is extremely forgetful, Positive ideas would be conveyed only for them to be overtuned in the next week 1 on 1 with zero recollection of the previous conversations. - Tensions got so bad a team member recently passed away

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5.0
May 26, 2026
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Pros

Well-structured and highly organized. Lots of learning and growth opportunities, autonomy and ownership. Companywide AI trainings and certification. Great people

Cons

Two-year limit on contractors and not a lot of headcount to convert contractors to FTE

1.0
Apr 27, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Remote friendly although this seems to be changing - Ok comp - Literally nothing else

Cons

- Totally incompetent leadership, especially Todd - Way too much middle management for a company of it's size - Heavy blame and PiP culture - Cliquey culture. Very clear "in" and "out" group - Very limited career growth opportunities - Incoherent and disjointed product, marketing, and communications strategy - It's a growth company that's completely stagnated. It continues to be surpassed by startups and other larger security providers who release features/product way quicker - Marketing org is very toxic and political - Okta is full of yes people who refuse to experiment and try anything new. Good luck presenting any new ideas with out getting immediately shot down - Hostile and antagonistic organizational structure. There's a strong divide between Workforce Cloud (WIC) and Customer Cloud (CIC). Both sides of the business actively work against each other and their goals which severely limits its overall growth

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