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Steven Schuurman
74 Ratings
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commercial plugins model seems to be the best combination to make an open source business successful (in 21 reviews)
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Great people to work with and excellent work life balance (in 5 reviews)
Cons
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Fortunately the company is good about letting you find your work/life balance (in 4 reviews)
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Being a distributed company, no one will nag you to get work done (in 5 reviews)
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"Challenging and rewarding work environment"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Elastic full-time
Pros
Great group of people, really brings out the best in me.
Every team in the organization is above anything I have experienced in other work places. Just super awesome people all over.
The company has a great culture, transparency is highly valued and almost religiously practiced, and all employees can make their opinion heard and respected.
The work is intensive, the bar is high, and the company has ambitious goals. So this isn't a place to rest and relax.
The leadership team is highly capable and inspiring. They have a very clear vision and and an excellent foundation to fulfill it.Cons
Working from afar can be a bit difficult and not for everyone. Especially if you're not in a US time zone. Expect to make compromises and be flexible with your time.
Advice to Management
Keep on doing what you do!
Pay attention to non-US employees and balance meetings and online activities between them and US-based employees. One of the greatest assets of this company is its distributed nature, strive hard to maintain it.Elastic 2017-05-14 02:10 PDT -
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"Dynamic, challenging, and truly meaningful work"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Elastic full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Working at Elastic has been a consistently rewarding experience:
* Genuinely fascinating product use cases across every imaginable industry and organization: financial, technological, scientific, non-profit, educational, e-commerce, and many more for practically any organization one can name
* Inspiring and positive vision for the future
* Thought leadership in regards to hiring, diversity, transparency, and continuous improvement
* A diverse, global, social, and truly fun teamCons
Challenges of course do exist, as they do in any fast-growing company in a highly competitive market. The rate of growth and change is rapid and constant, and the company is racing to stay one step ahead. Expectations are high. Good teamwork, communication, and at times, patience and perseverance, are required. The open-source world is both open and chaotic, perhaps why also exciting and limitless.
Advice to Management
Stay true to the vision of being steadfastly caring, principled, open, and connected to the community, even as you achieve greater success.
Elastic 2017-04-04 15:33 PDT -
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"Sales Development Representative"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOPros
One of the best company cultures around. Incredibly driven and intelligent people across every department. Products are changing the world, exciting place to work day in day out.
Cons
Absolutely none, no complaints about anything
Advice to Management
Keep up the great work and I love the transparency with the whole company
Elastic 2017-02-09 08:15 PST -
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"A missed opportunity"
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Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Elastic full-time
Pros
401k matching
Great health care benefits
Great product
Mostly laid-back environment
Free lunches in many offices
Fun engineering offsites twice a yearCons
Becoming just another software company
Lack of genuine attention to both gender and racial diversity, especially in leadership
Way too much effort/time required for perception management over actual accomplishment
Antiquated vacation policy (3 weeks)
Lack of transparency with promotion and compensation adjustment process
No attention to career development; management takes it for granted that people will not leave
Not enough stock option grantsAdvice to Management
Recapture the vision from earlier in the life of the company. Hiring people from Salesforce was the biggest mistake. It absolutely destroyed the culture. Some will argue that it's not as bad as if Oracle or IBM people took over. Sure, but there was still a missed opportunity to create a new type of software company with truly unique values. The main challenge for Elastic in the next year or two will be finding a way to keep people excited about working here; and for them not to feel so beat down and defeated from the lack of career development, constant perception management, fighting for raises/option grants, etc.
Elastic 2017-01-17 20:00 PST -
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"Best company I have ever worked for..."
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Elastic full-time (More than a year)
Pros
- Working with talented people makes a nice change
- Great flexibility between, work and play
- Very executive team who strive to make the company the best it can beCons
- The balance between open source and making money is a tough line to walk along, but Elastic do it pretty well!
- Some growth pains, but that is expected with such a company, if you need a highly structured environment to work in, this might not be your place.Advice to Management
Not much, just keep things the way they are!
Elastic 2017-01-07 05:17 PST -
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Star Star Star Star StarApproves of CEOI have been working at Elastic full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Strong technology and there's a great amount of technical resources and talent available to help sales be successful here. People are extremely willing to help one another, even other sales people. Also Elastic seems to have deep pockets with the investors helicoptering around and we're appropriately throwing a lot around and investing in being successful with Elastic Cloud. Overall it's the value of Elastic's brand with our users that continue to make people want to know more. My personal feeling is that Elastic will be a company to be at in the years to come.
Cons
There are cons too, particularly with our SDRs unfortunately but it's not their fault. Other tech companies invest a lot more in their "appointment" or "call" setters because sales development can and is a difficult job for those new to the game. This type of work requires a high volume of activity that can typically only be achieved by staying focused for good stretches of time and many of our current team just do not have the discipline or understand our customers. Its important this support function understand who we as sales reps are speaking. Managers please invest more in this team. It's a critical time in this team's career when they join Elastic. These initial roles will determine their growth trajectory and Elastic's management and their director are just not doing enough for them here to groom them into being sales people.
Advice to Management
Engage with our sales dev employees with career development tools so there will be opportunities available within the company for them. In particular mgmt. can do a better at guiding this team of employees to deliver high-quality leads to us in sales.
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"Amazing Company, team, culture and results"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Elastic full-time
Pros
This company is build by great people for great people, if you want to make a difference, learn from top executives, work with amazing technology, amazing customers in a unique culture Elastic should be your #1 place to work.
Cons
With the hyper growth, there is little time to formal performance reviews, career planning etc. If your looking for a "structured" career path Elastic is not your company.
Advice to Management
Keep doing the good stuff, The people and culture are what make Elastic unique, as we continue to grow to a 500+ people company finding the right people to keep this culture gonna be more challenging. Keep your focus on hiring for quality and fit not to fill position.
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"Challenging & Rewarding. Having fun"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Elastic full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Great people, smart, fun.
I can see decisions being made that have the long game in mind.
My work is making a difference.
Expectations of performance and quality is high...which is fine by me.
Some recent internal promotions have been great to see.
Leadership cares and wants to hear new ideas and to challenge old thinking.Cons
A distributed company can be hard to work for. Don't get me wrong, the cultural diversity is a fantastic benefit but, time zone differences, a 24x7 business, emails or Slack instead of calls or hallway conversations add another level of time / work.
Advice to Management
Elastic has an unbelievable opportunity now and in the future. Keep pushing us and yourself. Thank you.
Elastic 2016-12-15 22:05 PST -
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"Working at Elastic is fun, challenging, and stress-free"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOPros
* Smart, friendly, caring (for each other and for their work) coworkers
* Emphasis on teamwork
* Full transparency from top to bottom
* Pragmatic, down-to-earth principles
* The founders and executive team are accessible, vocal, and back up their words with actions
This might sound like Kool-Aid to you... but it isn't. This isn't a cult-like company where you buy into it and become a true believer. You're an individual with your own life and interests -- and working at Elastic is a two-way street. We're all fully-formed adults and Elastic is a sum of all of our contributions.Cons
Hard to come up with any!
* I remember management had to let some people go once... but they were given the chance to write a goodbye email to their coworkers and it was as amicable and mutually-respectful a parting as I've ever seen. Afterwards, the responsible individuals explained their criteria for making these kinds of difficult decisions and opened themselves up to questions about the process.
* Since we're a fully distributed company, it may take some getting used to if you haven't worked in a similar situation before, but everyone is here to support new hires and help them become successful.
* Some products have significant technical debt (which is apparent from checking them out on GitHub), but we're all aware of it and are working hard to reduce it.Advice to Management
Thank you for everything you do. Keep up the amazing work.
Elastic 2016-12-14 11:38 PST -
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"Very Poor Management"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Elastic full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Working remotely is a big plus! Though flexibility and trust is not always there as a result. The employees themselves are very good people, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with them. I also got a chance to met many great people outside of the company.
Cons
The management is among the worst I've seen. They are all very young, and can at times be disrespectful to others. It also seems that projects stay in a perpetual state of chaos. This is probably due to the poor technical leadership of inexperienced engineering managers.
There have also been a number of layoffs, so company morale hit a low point when I decided to leave. There is much uncertainly about the companies future.
The distributed teams can be challenging as well. It's great to work from home, but you pay the price with constant monitoring and distrust from management... even if you're doing a stellar job.
The salary and benefits are also lower than most employees would prefer.Advice to Management
Consider professional management training.
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