Aggressive unprofitable goals - Senior Sales Development Representative (SDR) Okta Employee Review

1.0
Sep 25, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits, Product fit, People on an individual level are amazing, Innovation in the industry is top notch, Office events

Cons

Company spent a ludicrous amount on pointless things like 6 happy hours in a month,Trainings from third party sources, cutting software that assisted with role. View people as expendable, Overhire and churn to pump their numbers. laid off the leaders for our teams, two lay offs in the last year. Toxic middle management leadership leads to a boys club, more than one suit against Okta within the last year. Didn't even conduct interviews for SDR to AE promotion, unequal promotion process. Hiring freezes, changes in requirements for promotion.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

Fantastic team and work life balance

Cons

No contract renewal due to budget constraints

1.0
Jun 23, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good company benefits - private healthcare, employee stock purchase programme Annual sales kickoff

Cons

All calls & emails are now monitored. Graded & tracked on your calls. New requirement is now to have 50+ calls a month recorded in Gong (Gong was previously phased out but now a requirement). Pay rises are low, false promises each year of promotions & generous pay rises Team members favoured over others Work life balance now near on impossible with all the new asks put in place

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