Great company if interested in the Observability space
Great company if interested in the Observability space
Open source codebases (not all teams at Elastic work in the open, though).
Popular choice in the Observability and search space.
Struggling in the search space against SaaS products like Algolia.
Overall decent pay, but very inconsistent and at times unfair.
Confusing and internally competing product line.
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