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Okta Interview Experiences
3935 interview stories from candidates at 857 companies: how each round went, what was asked and how it ended. Every company page links to practice questions in the same style.
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- A Token-Bucket Take-home and Cross-Domain LoginOkta · Backend Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Oct 2026
HM Screening A conversation with the hiring manager, mainly about past project experience, behavioral questions, and various real workplace scenarios. Take-Home Assignment Build a rate limiter in Node.js using the token bucket algorithm. Create an Express application that can read a configuration file. Expose an API that returns a rate-limit response. Technical Round - Code Review & Debugging Cod…
- One-Hour Phone Screen with BQ and a CodeSignal Pagination APIOkta · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2026
Okta's interviews feel like they vary a lot by team. I read a few other write-ups and they were all pretty different. From the recruiter to the interviewers, the company culture seemed pretty good and everyone was nice. If I get rejected, it just means I wasn't good enough. Anyways, posting this for whoever interviews next. My phone screen was 1 hour: 25 minutes of BQ, 30 minutes of coding, 5 min…
- Okta Software Engineer interview: smooth recruiter screen and abrupt rejectionOkta · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Jul 2026Rejected
The recruiter screening felt as though it was going fairly well, but I received an automated rejection shortly afterward with almost no detail. The questions I remember were basic: tell me about yourself, why I wanted to work there, and why I was considering other roles. The process ended so quickly that I did not feel there had been much evaluation beyond that first conversation. Since the scree…
