Elastic Reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(877 total reviews)
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Ashutosh Kulkarni

70% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Elastic has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 877 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Elastic employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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877 reviews
3.0
7 Oct 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- True remote culture - Some good managers and people with passion - Good compensation & benefits

Cons

- Too many management layers without proper decision makers - Managers & engineers are afraid to make decisions : This is a result of last layoff which was clearly top level mismanagement - Value personal opinions over common goals : Create chaos & make products to lack vision

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Elastic Response
8mo
Thank you for sharing your feedback. Your input will be used to help us improve processes and leadership across the company.
4.0
4 Apr 2024

Distributed by design

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Not only are they remote friendly, but they design all of their ways of working for distributed first

Cons

It is getting to the stage where it takes a million approvals to get anything done.

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Elastic Response
2y
Thanks so much for your review!
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