Okta·Software Engineer

Okta Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

CanadaPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a decent conversation with the HR team, and they told me the next step—a coding interview—would be scheduled for the following week.

I got an email asking me to pick a time slot, which I did, and then I ran into the first real problem: I never received the meeting link.

I followed up with the recruiter, but I didn’t get any response. A few days later, I received a rejection email anyway, which was frustrating because the communication breakdown happened before I ever got a fair chance to join.

What bothered me most was that it felt like the process closed without resolving the scheduling issue on my end. The rejection itself wasn’t unexpected given the pipeline, but getting there through silence and a missing link made

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