Elastic Reviews

Pros

Elastic is a rocket ship and I've learned more than I can imagine in my 3 years.

Pros

- Great engineering-first culture
- Team is knowledgeable, yet humble
- Amazing benefits!

Pros

Employee first focus , open communication, opportunities to grow and succeed as an individual. Working from home is an amazing privilege. Excellent focus on diversity.

Pros

Distributed Company, smart and good people.
Work from home and remote options, very good for individuals who have a family.
Work life balance is okay, not horrible - there are days when you have to put in some extra time due to timezones (distributed)
Ability to contribute ideas and suggestions at so many levels
Believe that the company has a heart and care not only about making money but care about what's going on in the universe and where they can, they try to make it better.
The technology is there to be a major player

Advice to Management

You have a great company, but you need to grow up a bit and start to swim in the big pool.
While you are all excited about what we have, we have to get customers just as excited and extend our reach more into larger accounts and industries with clear messaging and broaden the scope of contacts and individuals we should be selling to.
A hoody or tshirt giveaway is fun, but it is not a strategy.
A developer doesn't make key strategic decisions for an organization, need to position higher with business value

Pros

I cannot speak highly enough of Elastic, there's so many great things about the company that it's hard to narrow down. It is really easy to talk to anyone in the company (even though we're spread in 30+ countries), it's easy to talk to even C-level executives and nobody acts more important than anyone else. There is a truly honest and open culture, which fosters a community of knowledge sharing and constant learning while striving to make sure that everything is done with top notch quality. No decision is ever made blindly and we always give the deepest detail on the thought process behind them. Because we can hire remote workers globally, we are able to access top notch talent no matter where they are located. This shows whenever you talk to someone about the products, they're always excited and passionate about them both in quality, extent of use cases, and that fact that we keep our core components open source. I know that everybody thinks their company is the greatest, but I honestly cannot find something that I don't love about Elastic and I hope that we're able to stay tight knit and true to our values as we continue to grow rapidly.

Advice to Management

Don't change! Stay true to yourselves and keep it up.

Pros

People
* Smart
* Generous with time, thought, effort
* Passionate about helping around the world
* Empowering of underrepresented people
* Proven record of inclusion

Policy
* Proven adherence to policies regarding workplace harassment
* Generous vacation, sick, volunteer, and floating holidays
* Openness to speak 1-on-1 with C-level people and people at all levels
* Transparency on all decisions and direction
* Openness to employment contract compromise

Engineering
* Flexible work hours and location
* Great peer reviews of code
* Emphasis on building each engineer
* Focus on releasing quality over speed
* ... and yet code is shipped very fast

Advice to Management

:elasticheart:

Pros

Super environment to work in - flexible, supportive

Advice to Management

stay transparent!

Pros

I joined the team because I saw that Elastic truly values and trusts their employees, and this has been consistent since I started working with them.

- Remote & flexible work environment is invaluable
- My manager supports and encourages me -- she's the best manager I've had thus far into my career
- I admire the leadership here and the direction we are headed as a company
- I feel that my work is very meaningful

Advice to Management

- Keep up the great work

Pros

Decent pay, good health care benefits, (mostly) distributed work culture, unique opportunity to be a part of the next big software company

Advice to Management

Be more real and honest about who we are as a company. There's a lot of talk about how great the culture is but no one is willing to define what that culture is. Lack of definition, even a high level definition, results in mismatched expectations and conflict from various folks claiming to understand the "culture".

Define a set of core values that everyone in the company adopts, regardless of group, locale, etc. and try to live by them.

Stop calling the company a "startup". It's 5+ years old with 500+ employees. Many levels of management and process. It may feel like a startup to people from IBM, HP, etc. but it's a small to medium sized company, not a "startup".

I had written a more negative review in the past but took it down because many of my critiques had finally been addressed. It's unfortunate it took so long but at least the company was willing to do something after numerous negative Glassdoor reviews saying the same thing. People have been giving feedback on these areas of improvement internally for years but nothing happens until people air it out on Glassdoor, thus affecting the ability to attract talent? Sigh.

There is a lack of genuine effort and desire to have a ethnic and gender diverse management team. It's pretty obvious from the way executives talk about it that they just don't get it. It might be helpful if these mostly white males made an effort to reach out to current non-white employees to get honest feedback on how things could be improved.

Pros

Easy to meet the customer. Flexible work. Work from home. Diveristy culture.