The initial recruiter call was informative and the two technical interviews were fairly comfortable. The first technical interview with a Principal Engineer was very domain-specific, testing for hands-on experience with React through a "real-world" exercise that was pretty pleasant to work with. The second technical interview with a Team Lead was supposed to be centred around the topic of "system design", but to be fair, it only covered one single system design question in under 5 minutes, which seemed a bit too rushed. The conversation with the Tech Lead was good anyway, despite of the diminished emphasis on system design. Overall, everybody at Elastic who I talked to was very friendly and neither of the interviews required any of the standard "LeetCode interview prep". However, the system design interview lacked sufficient depth and could be explored more thoroughly to allow building a more productive conversation. I would certainly interview with Elastic again in the future, as the technical challenges are quite exciting and the organization offers plenty of career growth opportunities through its career ladder matrix.

I applied online and after a couple of week got an email saying the decided to not move forward with me. No interview, no contact, even from HR. Really??? I have 0ver 15 year experience when last 4 years in Principal/Tech lead position. I worked as principal SDE in a company bigger and better that elastic and they didn't even want to contact me.