Mission: We help people around the world do great things with their data. Our products are extending what's possible with data, and deliver on the promise that good things come from connecting the dots.
The bush fires are still raging throughout Australia. In this Helper Node blog post, learn how #Elastician Toby Brain has used his Volunteer Time Off to help, and how you can do your part. #LifeAtElastic
How do Elastic Engineers encourage each other’s growth? In this post, we dig into the homegrown Engineering Ongoing Mentorship Program, which pairs colleagues with different experience levels for open discussion, support & skill sharing.
#LifeAtElastic
Elastic is a Search Company
Elastic is on a mission to make real-time data exploration easy and available to anyone. Our team is passionate about working here, and we hire team players who want to help with our continued success and growth. What makes our company great and unique is our ability to embrace different cultures, perspectives, languages, backgrounds, genders, nationalities, locations, and make something greater than the parts.
Careers at Elastic
Diversity drives our identity. Your Elastic career will be unique to you, and that’s how we like it. We value creativity and mobility across the organization so you can go deeper, broaden your horizons, and grow. We’re open. And with fantastic benefits and flexible work options, we’re here with the assist while you chase your dreams. Elastic is growing fast. Come join our cluster.
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
Field Operations covers all go-to-market functions related to customer acquisition, expansion, and retention. We think globally and act locally with teams covering every major international market. Striving to maintain a high-performing culture of growth and efficiency, we invest heavily in hiring and retaining the best talent in our industry.
Learn more about our Sales teams here
Finding Solutions
Selling at Elastic requires teamwork and enthusiasm to navigate complex market conditions of partnerships as well as complementary and competitive solutions. We embrace open source and are humbled by its power to reach across industries, segments, and global markets. Elastic’s sales professionals are driven, technically curious, and exceptional at finding solutions to hard problems. We celebrate success and reward results.
Learn about our customer stories here
Training Elastic's Future Leaders
The Sales Development team is a diverse group of smart, curious, creative, and passionate professionals who work hard to help our users and potential customers successfully navigate their Elastic journey. Our team spans the globe, working in 12 different cities and speaking 20 different languages. Despite the distances, we share and learn from each other on a daily basis. With a strong focus on skills development and team success, we are the training ground for Elastic's future leaders.
Our Team
At its heart, ours is a search-engineering business. Our culture and how we work are shaped by our foundation in open source and the fact that we’ve been a global, distributed company from day one. Collaboration and transparency are key to our success as we strive to make the world of data easier to navigate.
Learn more about our Engineering teams here
Our Products
We are passionate about customer success and great user experience, and spend a lot of time engaging with users of our stack. In order to see the big picture, we keep a pulse on the latest market and competitive developments, help drive pricing/packaging, and closely track product adoption KPIs. But when it comes to product delivery, we love being hands-on and to dive deep. We strive to be the first users of the features that we build, and define our success by how much our customers love our products.
Click here to learn more about our products.
Constant (Engineering) Support
Support engineers are unique creatures — part MacGyver, part Grace Hopper, and part Himalayan Sherpa. We are always ready and willing to guide our customers to success. Our greatest strength, when working with customers, is the human connection we build based on trust and understanding.
Our support team stays on top of everything that's changing across the Elastic Stack, curating best practices that can be helpful to the novice and expert alike.
Our Teams Are Global
Some of your colleagues may be right next door, while others are halfway around the world. Whether you’re in Engineering or Legal, you’ll have teammates who have different perspectives and unique approaches for tackling challenges. We believe this makes us better at creating thoughtful, holistic solutions.
Our Source Code is Us
What makes Elastic, Elastic? Great question. Articulating the answer started with a blank document (the new-age napkin, really) in a Tokyo bar followed by more thought, introspection, and iteration. What resulted was a set of ideas rather than a statement of corporate values to keep us honest as we go about our business.
Life Happens While We Work
Working across time zones and often from our homes, life happens in the background while we have meetings and catch up on email. This might mean a kid on your lap as you give a demo from the couch, a dog playing fetch beside your desk, or a partner banging the pots and pans in the background while making dinner. At Elastic, this doesn’t faze us. We’re not just family friendly, we’re life-friendly.
Want to stay up to date with Life@Elastic? Visit our Culture Blog, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube & Facebook
Elastic Cares
Elastic cares. A whole lot. Our philanthropic team aims to maximize and support Elasticians efforts in contributing to the causes that matter most to them. We offer discounted software for non-profit organizations, match donations, and provide paid time off for volunteering — the goal is to recognize that participating in these sorts of activities can inspire and enrich our lives in unexpected ways.
Helper Nodes
We believe in giving back, supporting the communities in which we live and work, and to recognize that participating in these sorts of activities can inspire and enrich our lives in unexpected ways. Being that we are a global community, we also understand that community is not defined as just local community, but may encompass a global perspective.
Learn more about how Elasticians use their VTO below & on our Culture Blog:
Elastic Builders Return from VTO in Mexico
How I used my VTO with Refugee Rescue
Why Elastic paid me to work with 3 to 79-year-olds for a week
A Reflection on my Volunteer Experience in Guatemala
Thankful for My Volunteer Time Off
Helpful (2)
I have been working at Elastic full-time (More than a year)
Pros
1. Amazing People & Managers
2. Flexible work culture & challenging work
3. Great parental leave policy (16 weeks)
Cons
Rewards and recognition could be better.
Advice to Management
Nothing much. Keep this culture forever
Application
I applied online. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Elastic.
Interview
Everyone I interviewed with were very good people. Very professional and very friendly.
I would've had a very positive experience if not for the responsiveness over email. I expected the process will be long based on what I've been reading in Glassdoor but I didnt expect the unresponsiveness.
Even though they say I can contact them for any questions, I never received a reply to any email I have sent. If I follow-up, days after I will just receive a new email about the next step that doesn't look like my messages in the other thread were even read. It feels like I am just being sent automated application process email templates and my replies are just going to no-reply email addresses.
Interview Questions
