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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      Dec 18, 2019
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Okta (San Francisco, CA) in Jun 2019

      Interview

      I applied online. The next day received a reply from the recruiter. Scheduled phone screening with a manager. During the phone-screening was asked common questions and then was asked to write a small program. Within the next couple of days scheduled another phone screening with a technical lead from another team. Passed that as well, answering coding questions and finding errors in the code snippets. I was invited for an on-site interview. There starts a pretty awful experience. The interview was rescheduled a couple of times, however, when I arrived, I had to wait about half an hour for the first interviewer to arrive. Spent about 6 hours on-site, interviewed by 6 different people. Some were knowledgable, others were not. Every single one asked to fix problems in the code or write some code snippets. Really? Don't you trust each other? The strangest task was handwritten on the board fully covering almost all of it. The solution of replacing all that code with just 4 lines did not satisfy the interviewer :) Another interviewer, when I was talking about my previous work, was visibly rolling eyes on the decisions that were PM responsibility, as if it was the worst thing he has ever heard. None of the interviewers was brave enough to just call it off, and not waste nobody's time, even though most of them looked very unsatisfied.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Fix the code for locking/unlocking critical section
      Answer question
      1

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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      Jan 7, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Bengaluru
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Okta (Bengaluru) in Oct 2023

      Interview

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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      Aug 10, 2022
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Okta in May 2022

      Interview

      Submitted an application online with an initial 30 minute phone interview to discuss the position, the interview process and identify next steps. First interview was an hour session with the team lead that included a beginner-level coding challenge. Second interview was a 45-minute session with the hiring manager that included dialogue using the STAR format and that ended with time to ask interviewer questions. Third interview was an hour session with an architect that included a medium-level coding challenge. Fourth interview was a 45-minute session with an architect that included a system design challenge. Fifth interview was an hour session with an architect that included a medium-level coding challenge. I was informed via an automated message that I was no longer a candidate for the position.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      Convert a list of Java object to another list of Java object
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      Question 2

      Design a data synchronization solution similar to dropbox
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      Question 3

      Code a method to merge sorted arrays
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      Question 4

      Code a solution to identify a winner in a game using constant time
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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      Jan 13, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Okta

      Interview

      The phone screen was given within few days, and then it was end of the year. So, the onsite happened the first week of the year. Over all, smooth process and the interviewers were nice. One initial phone screen and 5 onsite virtual interviews.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

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