I was really excited to apply to Elastic, having been interested in their products and using them for a while. This role seemed to line up well with my skills and experience, so I thought it would be enough to at least get an interview.

Initially, I got no response to my application, so I solved a few of their product issues on GitHub and reached out to a recruiter on LinkedIn, which was enough to get an initial conversation with a recruiter.

I then had a technical interview, in which I was asked about my programming language experience, among other things. The job description had mentioned "experience with languages X or Y" as being a requirement, and I had X. But this interview included a lot of questions about languages Y and Z (the latter was not even mentioned in the job posting).

Despite this, the conversation seemed to go pretty well. I heard the following week that they had gone with some others that had more experience. I never even reached the stage of answering technical or code questions, unfortunately.

If the job description had been more in-line with the questions I actually ended up being asked, I would have changed my preparation for the interview dramatically. Despite my enthusiasm for the company and its products, the interview process left a bad taste in my mouth.

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