Pros
+ Most team memebers are nice, except for a select few situated in the main Pacific Time zone
+ Other teams at okta are really good and helpful. Really good professionals IMHO
+ This team used to be Nice when the team was being lead by a former employee, it was later taken over by the manager who is quiet horrible at understanding and assigning tasks
+ learnt a lot about security, although all my learnings lasted only about the first 2 years.
Cons
- Un clear mandates from leadership which changes every other month
- Manager is King, Literally a manager can make things up and they never get challenged.
- Over assignment of projects with un achievable deadlines were common towards then end .
- segregation wiithin the teams as only a hanful are allowed to make decisions . These Segregated memebers were rewarded by better project selections and tasks as the rest were givven remedial busy tasks
- Finger Pointing culture when it comes to certain tasks
- Manager gets aggressive where its not warranted, and does not respect boundries during Doctor visits.
- Manager is explosively retaliatory and creates horrible toxic culture in private chats.
- No acknolodgements for achievements as they were given , instead your work gets reported as accomplished by other team members.
- No room to grow as Not even yearly evaluations are handled factually.
- Manager is extremely forgetful, Positive ideas would be conveyed only for them to be overtuned in the next week 1 on 1 with zero recollection of the previous conversations.
- Tensions got so bad a team member recently passed away