Okta

Okta has a stable culture. Bottom 9% for Employee NPS - significantly below average.

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1. Love our customers.
Loving our customers has always been a differentiator in how we operate. Our customers are at the heart of what we do, and we’re only successful as a company if they are.

As we’ve grown from a tiny startup into a market and thought leader, we’ve maintained our grounding in customer-centricity. You see this value in all of our work, from security updates that better protect our customers to product innovation stemming from customer needs. For further proof, you can turn to our customers’ stories about their love of Okta, including on the Oktane stage. When we say we love our customers, we truly mean it!

2. Always secure. Always on.
This value reflects our ongoing commitment to making every employee an owner of security. It guides our decision-making and our outcomes over the long term. What does this mean for Okta as a company? It means we never jeopardize the security and reliability we promise. It means we aim to eliminate every risk, even if there’s a one-in-a-million chance of materializing. One example of this value is Okta’s Secure Identity Commitment, our long-term commitment to being a leader in the fight against Identity attacks.

How are we doing this? By investing in market-leading products and services, hardening our corporate infrastructure, championing customer best practices, and raising the bar for our industry. Read more about the commitment and the actions we’re taking hereopens in a new tab.

3. Build and own it.
We are committed to creating an environment where employees can be their best selves, inside and outside the workplace. We work to ensure employees can see a direct connection between their effort and results and understand how their work fits into the broader company vision.

We foster a culture where employees care deeply about the work we do and who we do it with, with a high sense of ownership and accountability for results. As builders and owners, we know that we do our best work as a team. It reminds us not to think like individuals or within the scope of our departments but as a whole.

4. Drive what’s next.
Driving what’s next means we’re always thinking and moving proactively. We never stop evolving, and we never settle for less than excellence. We’re living and working in a fast-changing industry with an increasing number of threats, so we need to be on the offense to move quickly and safeguard against the current and future landscape.

We keep learning and growing and aren’t afraid to experiment. We move with speed to innovate and live up to our potential. All of this enables our goal to provide the best product and experience to our customers, partners, users, and broader network.

Areas of Concern

Bottom 9% for Employee NPS - significantly below average.

Bottom 15% for AI maturity - significantly below average.

How well does Okta adhere to its principles?

Higher than 53% of companies · median 43

Where do ideas come from?

Lower than 91% of companies · median 36

Organizational Power

Employee count

Large Enterprise6,366 employees

Average Hours Worked

Pace

Lower than 65% of companies · median 60.5

Remote Friendly?

Hybrid/Mixed Bag

How Information Shared

Meetings

Compensation Relative to Market

Lower than 66% of companies · median 115

AI Insights:
Okta is the enterprise identity company that somehow lost its own identity - smart people, decent pay, and WLB that's slowly being clawed back by RTO mandates. Frequent reorgs keep management busy rearranging deck chairs while ICs hit a career ceiling around year three. The PIP culture is real, strategy pivots are constant, and your TC will quietly decline if you stay too long. Great resume line; terrible place to grow.

AI stack

Okta AI platform (Identity Security Posture)|Microsoft Copilot|Internal LLM tools|GitHub Copilot|Workforce Identity Cloud AI

AI maturity

Lower than 85% of companies · median 60

Detailed Compensation Information

Levels.FYI

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