I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Okta in Oct 2024
Interview
Interview experience was good. But bad luck they revoked the position saying current employee is getting promoted for the role. Yeah still would love to re interview here. In my case HR was very responsive and I had a chance to give my interview to one of the renowned SDKs developer at a very high position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HM Round:
1. Introduction about your projects in detail.
2. Why you want to change now?
3. Team composition and day to day activities.
4. Any situation where you have diffrence of opinion with your peers and how did you handle that.
5. What is that you are planning for your future in terms of professional goal.
6. What do you think about open source applications if you compare it with enterprise applications.?
7. Have you contributed to any open source?
8. Do you know how to work with github?
9. How do you keep yourself updated with changing tech updates?
10. What do you look in a team in which you work?
11. Do you openly communicate your thought to other peers or people while working or not?
12. How do you help you juniors in case of any issues?
13. Which tech stack you are familiar with(Terraform,Azure e.g)?
14. At last Which one you choose between Ghost or Alien and why?
1st Technical Round:
1. Intro about yourself and it should include projects which has served other developers(e.g nuget packages) etc. They want to understand why you are looking out for change.
2. Have you contributed in any open source?
3. Which development tool is your favourite and why?
4. Based on above introduction related questions if any.
5. Have you worked with CI-CD pipelines? If so how have you worked and whether created or not.
6. Have you worked with Terraform.
7. Have you worked with Powershell.
8. What do you think should be an approach towards designing a sdk thinking about a good developer experience?
9. What kind of security do you think should be in place in terms of api and sdks?
10. A code signal coding question: 1st we have to explain the approach. 2nd We had to code and pass all the test cases if possible. But main focus is on approach and thought process.
11. Another scenario based coding question where in we have to design an Api with few Http Methods. Here they want to see in the approach,considerations while designing an api as a service to other client.
12. In between there can be few questions and conditions which can be asked or updated based on your approach.
8* CodeSignal:
Problem Description
You are given an array of strings names representing filenames. The array is sorted in order of file creation, such that names[i] represents the name of a file created before names[i+1] and after names[i-1] (assuming 0-based indexing).
All files must have unique names. Files created later with the same name as a file created earlier should have an additional (k) suffix in their name, where k is the smallest positive integer (starting from 1) that does not appear in previous file names.
Your task is to iterate through all elements of names (from left to right) and update all filenames based on the above rules. Return an array of proper filenames.
Example
Input:
names = ["doc", "doc", "image", "doc(1)", "doc"]
Output:
["doc", "doc(1)", "image", "doc(1)(1)", "doc(2)"]
Similar Leetcode question: https://leetcode.com/problems/making-file-names-unique/description/
9* Api Design Question:
API
1) GET /api/Applications #Get all Applications
2) GET /api/Applications/{id} #Get an Application by ID
3) POST /api/Applications #Add a new Application
4) DELETE /api/Applications/{id} #Delete an Application
5) PUT /api/Applications/{id} #Update an existing Application
Request body Response body
1) None Array of Applications
2) None Application
3) Application Application
4) None None
5) Application None
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Okta in Apr 2026
Interview
First was phone call with HR then coding round. Next was 2 hours of system design and advance coding round 1 hour each. Finally, 30 mins call with Hiring manager. Interviewers were very attentive and process was smooth.
It was 3 rounds: Hiring manager, DSA and system design. Started with recruiter call then moved ahead accordingly.DSA round was medium leetcode and system design involved complete end to end cases
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Okta in Mar 2026
Interview
1. Recruiter reached out
2. 30-min hiring manager interview
3. Codesignal coding assessment
I haven't got into system design rounds yet after coding assessment, and I was ghosted by my recruiter.
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