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.

Pros

I've been here over a year now and I'm still loving it. Senior leadership is amazing. Transparency and empathy are hugely important. The company is remote-first, so you can work from home and not feel like a second-class citizen. Elastic's "Source Code" and culture are fantastic. Compensation and benefits are extremely generous. Engineering managers are always engineers. There are lots of smart and capable people to work with and learn from, and everyone is friendly. Work is always challenging and impactful. There's never a boring day here!

Cons

At a remote-first company where transparency is highly valued, so much information is shared that it can be overwhelming. Company-wide and/or dev-wide emails are regular, and range from team updates to RFCs for important changes to downtime alerts to baby announcements. After a while you get some email filters set up and get into a routine of muting noisy threads, and it's not so bad. Working remotely in a very large distributed team can be challenging at times. Good communication skills are a must. Leadership really wants to give employees learning opportunities, but it can be hard to find the time to do so -- I feel like this is true of most companies, though. Still they have been and continue to work on improving this!

Pros

Genuine care for employee well-being. This is reflected in the generous benefits and numerous perks offered to employees. Beyond that, the company has a tremendous opportunity ahead and is very well positioned for success over the next decade. Every company that has grown (and continues to grow) as fast as Elastic will experience some growing pains but that is minor. Great people, autonomous environment, amazing market opportunity. Couldn't be more pleased to be a part of this company.

Cons

if you are not resourceful and you struggle with ambiguity, you will be frustrated at times. It's the nature of a globally distributed, fast-moving company. You need to be disciplined enough to thrive in an autonomous environment.

Pros

Everyone here is kind and helpful. I’ve worked in a lot of places where they are all in for themself and here it’s not like that. Management is great also- something I’m always worried about when I start in a new company. They’re all inclusive so they embrace diversity which I love to see. The company is global so working with people around the world is awesome. Benefits are also very generous here and competitive with many other companies.

Cons

I still struggle with working with others in different time zones, definitely something to get used to. Work load also can be high at times but there are more pros than cons :)

Pros

Great culture, people and products...

Cons

well its remote, your running alone and most answers are go to a wikipedia..

Pros

Elastic cares a lot about their people. The HR department is always offering resources to make our lives better. The compensation is more than fair. And the software is amazing.

Cons

I can not think of any cons at the moment

Pros

Culture, pay, product are all great

Cons

Not much to say about bad

Pros

Good benefits and competitive pay

Cons

- Incredibly inept and tone deaf leadership - Leaders care more about pleasing executive staff than they do about their employees - Leadership likes to blame others for their failures, for example CEO likes to blame AWS for his lack of strategy, as there really is no clear strategy - A lot of dishonesty, lies to employees and customers a like - The recent license change is a slap in the face to the community who helped build the software - Solutions are not on par with competition and are very difficult to setup, we lose a lot of business as a result, but nothing changes - Politics are encouraged and a lot of people are ostracized and alienated