Okta Software Engineer interview experience

I started with a recruiter conversation, then had an initial technical phone screen, and eventually a virtual on-site that stretched across five rounds. The technical portion included LeetCode-style questions at a medium level, but the really distinctive parts were the deeper rounds: one architecture/design-style session where I had to design a large-scale system under constraints and a scenario-driven prompt, plus another high-level round that involved the kind of end-to-end thinking you’d expect from senior leadership.

Across the process, the engineering discussions were probing in a good