What Happened to Transparency? - Anonymous employee Okta Employee Review

2.0
3 Jun 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent compensation Stock options are nice Reasonable bonus structure Good coworkers lead to great teams Great products Interesting problems to solve and great opportunities Best products on the market Okta for Good is awesome

Cons

Lying leadership The culture is toxic No transparency Leadership is lost, confused, and flailing Blame must always be placed on someone and someone's head must roll, even for minor issues There is no career path beyond moving into management Certain departments are falling apart because of the toxic culture Leadership is in CYA mode and blaming everyone below them A total focus on bureaucracy and not actual customer satisfaction and no thought to if we should to it, but simply can we do it. Pay attention to feedback and stop punishing people for asking questions or finding better ways to enable our customers and make them successful

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