> Wallander also said she was concerned that “two women were laid off due to what was appearing more and more like gender discrimination.”<p>News sources tell me that Okta laid off about 400 people [1]. The fact that three of them were women is not even remotely enough to conclude that the layoffs were discriminatory.<p>1. <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/02/01/okta-to-lay-off-7percent-of-staff-about-400-employees.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/02/01/okta-to-lay-off-7percent...</a>
The courts will have to resolve this. And big companies are gonna do layoff because that's their standard formula.<p>Props to their sales people, but it's surprising they attained as much sales up to and including some of MAANG with a SaaS business model built on the fallacy of outsourcing authentication and authorization of internal tools and systems to an external third-party. At least it should be totally on-prem.
Uh oh. Okta seems to be having technical problems over the last few days too (ie automatically logging out the account admin a few seconds after logging in), and the support ticket we've filed about it hasn't even been looked at. :(