I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Okta (Toronto, ON) in Mar 2020
Interview
Absolutely the worst interview experience I've had in my 10 years professional career. Mainly because of the recruiter of the company. Just to list a few things that happened:
- extremely bad at communication, I had to personally chase down couple emails/linkedin messages to get the exact detail of my own interview.
- After the first phone technical interview, I again heard nothing for couple days, after I chased the person on linkedin again, he told me I didn't pass. However after a couple hours, he then messaged me again saying he's mistakened it, and I did pass. Told me to wait for instructions for next round.
- It has been 3 weeks since and still no updates whatsoever on the next round. They've got my schedules couple times and each time there's no reply after that.
- At this point I just pretty much gave up and assumed they don't want me that much.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked some background and did one easy to medium lvl coding question
3 rounds of interview first round is coding round taken by a principal engineer who asked a complex coding question not DSA but take complex json input parse it flaten it and make weighted average of the inputs and provide a output in a different format
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding question about data json handling and weighted average calculation
Interviewed in summer 2024. Talk with screener about job, role, etc. First stage was talk with Hiring Manager about exp. Second's home work, create backend service using their reqs, nothing complicated but time consuming. 3d stage arch decision talk with one of the engineers from target team (also security related questions, basic topics without depth). 4th and last interview was with Head of Department or some similar role, std behavioral questions, motivation talk, etc. Didn't pass last stage, reason unknown. 1.5 mos from first contact to the end. Neutral since last stage was terrible, weird talk, ghosted results (before were responsive).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is Cross-Site Scripting and how to prevent it.
Took 6 weeks for a single interview then never heard from again. Would wholeheartedly not recommend them to anyone ever. This is just too much for anyone to have to go through.