J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Okta (San Francisco, CA) en mars 2021
Entretien
Beware. Standard SF smug BS. The nicer they act and tell you how "excellent" you are; the more your chances for failure and they are being completely dishonest. I was looking at jotted notes and they figured out pretty quickly in hindsight. Instead of pointing out, he decided to ask how I had such amazing answers and then proceeded to tell me I already knew everything so no need to go ahead with the technical part of the interview because I was amazing. Note, we are so nervous and trying our best and it feels horrible to know they are really just literally lying in front of my face for 30 minutes. I spoke to a couple of friends and they said they do this to keep their reviews on Glassdoor (etc.) sparkling though in reality they think the exact opposite of you. He really ended with the interview implying I was going to be called in back pretty soon for the next round.
It didn't matter. He wasn't listening. Just nodding along for a half hour telling me how amazing I was when in reality he thought I was horrible for glancing at notes. Standard SF fake immodest interview...where lie to your face.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
What is OKTA? Describe integrations with other systems.
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Okta (Chicago, IL) en oct. 2025
Entretien
Applied through company site and earned a first round call with a recruiter. Easy call, nothing out of the ordinary. Call took about 20 min. Recruiter shared basic information regarding the role.
It was a very clear process from start to finish. Recruiter and hiring manager were very helpful and provided great feedback. Questions weren't super difficult.
Liked how structured each interview felt
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Okta
Entretien
I’m first initial phone screen and then phone interview with hiring manager and other team members. Started fine, great pitch on the company and how they’re the market leader in the space and offer great incentives like stocks / RSUs. Did my homework on what investors, customers and articles on Okta. Wanted to know how to address clients who are asking about their recent breach earlier this year and then twilio and Twitter getting hacked with okta’s MFA and also Okta’s passbleed issue and seems I struck a nerve that I wasn’t supposed to ask. The team started to get very snarky, defensive and questioning my abilities and trying to play “gotcha”. I’ve been in the industry for a while , good 10 years and ANYONE can do well as a CSM if things are all good but it’s when stuff hits the fan and customers are upset with product problems or breaches, I want to make sure I know what I’m stepping in. After this part was done, some were talking about colleagues especially sales folks how it’s cut throat, sales folks will Jack up renewals on customers by a lot 30% just so they can get more $ out of customers but as a CSM, you want to provide value to customers but if nothing new is provided and you simply want to charge that much, it makes a CSMs job so much harder when you have an angry customer now.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
What are your biggest accomplishments? What do you do when you have 5 major customers having issues at the same time? Why do you think you would be a good fit? What do you do when a customer is churning, what is your success rate in saving customers?