Pros
- Amazing engineers with a lot of heart, sense of humor and talent. - A promising IPO in the horizon. - Product meets a strong business need and is well respected by customers.
Kontras
- In a time when every Silicon Valley company values their engineering talent, Okta management still lives in this dystopian world where they are fine treating them like replaceable commodities. - There is no real process to assess performance, if a bunch of people leave - management gets insecure and promotes a bunch of people. If people don't leave - management plays delay tactics and creates fake promotion promises to frustrate the engineers to leave. Rinse and Repeat every year. - Inconsistent, reactionary and fear driven management culture creates this weird atmosphere where an outage results in management running around like head-less chickens looking to place blame on anyone down the ladder. - Product Management arm twists Engineering management to bow to their will. Result? Engineers get burnt out trying to meet deliverables and eventually leave.