Okta Interview Experience
interview
This post is to share my interview experience with Okta for a Senior Software Engineer position in Toronto(May 2019). This is gonna be a very short post, since I did not get past the phone screen 😁
Round 0 - Telephonic
Given a binary search tree, and a value, find the node in the binary search tree whose value is the closest to the
given value
You can find the solution discussed at GeeksforGeeks, in case you’re interested.
Once I solved this question, the interviewer asked some questions on indexes in DB.
He then asked me to design an an API with pagination - I talked about using offset-limit
pagination since I haven’t
used cursor-based pagination before, but from the
interviewer’s reaction, I felt he expected me to have known more about cursor-based pagination.
After letting me ask some questions about the company, he ended the call saying that the recruiter will get back to me shortly, but I never heard back :sad:
Final Thoughts
I thought I did fine(not great though!) in this round and was expecting to progress to the next round - But to my surprise, I did not hear back from the recruiter again. I tried reaching out via email but didn’t get any response . Definitely not a good experience from a company I had high hopes for.