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Okta Engineering interview questions

69 interview questions for Engineering roles at Okta, written from Okta’s 8 current postings on its own careers page. These are what the postings say to prepare for — not questions Okta has asked.

Built 2026-10-13

Three of the questions

  1. Walk me through how you'd use the SuiteScript Generative AI API to integrate LLM capabilities into a custom scripting solution in NetSuite. What would the architecture look like from the saved search trigger to the AI response being written back?
    Technical depth · from the posting: “Leverage NetSuite's native AI capabilities and APIs, such as the SuiteScript Generative AI API, NetSuite Prompt Studio, and the AI Connector Service (MCP) to create custom AI-enhanced features.```”
  2. It's your on-call rotation on the Identity Management Engineering team and you get paged for a production alert affecting Active Directory-integrated customers. Walk me through how you'd triage it.
    Scenarios & troubleshooting · from the posting: “Respond to production issues/alerts and customer issues during on-call rotation”
  3. The role says we need people who 'operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.' Tell me about a time you had to ship a production fix or feature on a tight deadline while keeping quality high. What did you do?
    Behavioural · from the posting: “operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence”
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What the full prep holds

  • Common questions · 8
  • Your background · 3
  • Quick-fire technical · 29
  • Technical depth · 12
  • System design · 5
  • Scenarios & troubleshooting · 6
  • The company & the problem · 3
  • Behavioural · 3
  • Questions to ask them · 2

A free account shows the 8 common questions and the 3 above. Basic and Elite show every question with how to answer it; Elite also writes your own answers from your resume. See plans.

The Okta postings it is written from