How Elastic interviews
Elastic publishes its hiring stages as a sequence: a 30-minute recruiter screen, then multiple 45-to-90-minute department interviews (peer engineers, hiring manager, and leadership), a 45-to-90-minute panel presentation that may incorporate a role-play or product demonstration, and, for many engineering positions, a 60-to-90-minute technical assessment such as a coding exercise or a technical deep dive.
Specifics vary by role; the firm targets a few days to a post-process decision. Every stage runs remotely – Elastic is distributed by design, with no single office locus for hiring. The loop runs as several scheduled sessions across weeks rather than a single onsite day, so a candidate carries it in parallel with other applications rather than treating it as one compressed event.