Elastic Reviews

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

Pros

Management is incredible, Shay (CEO) has no ego and everyone is free to voice concerns with zero fears of repercussion. Fridges are fully stocked, ping pong tables and even yoga breaks throughout the day. Managers (especially in sales) make sure you are successful from day one and care about your wellbeing!

Cons

I honestly can't think of any. The only potential concern I see is that about 90% of our business is based on license sales and that 95% of those license sales are motivated by the security plug-in. Some of our largest customers aren't renewing because they can get elasticsearch security for free/cheaply from Amazon Elasticsearch Open Distro or with Search Guard.

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you're doing! Don't give in to Amazon!

Pros

The best and smartest colleagues on the planet. Wonderful ethos, great product, sky rocket growth. Inspirational CEO and great leadership team.

Cons

Growing very quickly. Challenge will be to maintain level of quality.

Advice to Management

Keep it up.

Pros

Great technology, incredible market penetration (EVERY company uses the tech), awesome CEO and UNBELIEVABLE benefits (best in the industry, now I know)

Cons

With the massive growth hiring abounds, perhaps a bit too quickly as sales territories get pared fast minimizing opportunity -- it's a growing pain but can be significant if you spent long time developing customers.

Advice to Management

Get in the field as often as possible and not just for the "perfect" meetings -- often we were alerted that an exec was "in town" in 2 weeks and the scramble that ensued was both comical and daunting.

Pros

Great Benefits Good overall work environment Amazing people Great products Very good work/life balance (for most)

Cons

Lot of talk about culture and I was and very early employee who saw the culture change quite a bit. I think things changed quite a bit once Shay became CEO. It used to be that employees where allowed to speak out without consequences. In my opinion, it's turned into a very autocratic culture. That's the main reason I left. I do recommend the company for most people as overall, it's a great company. Amazing people...

Advice to Management

Go back to the culture that Elastic was. Stop preaching diversity when there are practically no women in leadership positions at the company. Stop being a boys club! Go back to your roots and be a less autocratic company.

Pros

- Great career development opportunities. - Smart/ambitious colleagues. - Great perks/benefits. - Lots of flexibility around work arrangement.

Cons

- Fast growth bring great opportunities, but also adds to workload, making work/life balance difficult at times.

Pros

Awesome market awareness Great work/life balance Impressive CEO Management team all "pitches in" when requested by field

Cons

Company growth expectations cut down on the territory

Pros

Worked side-by-side with some outstanding, wonderful peers!

Cons

Management is using fear, guilt and shame to scare people into compliance. Challenging teams generally pisseseach and every one off and is not a good way to build relationships. There are few things more damaging to human relationships than a sense of superiority. The ripple effects have a direct impact on creating or destroying a culture. Direct reports who are bold enough to express criticism get punished at Elastic....