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      Senior JavaScript Engineer Interview

      Feb 10, 2017
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Elastic in Feb 2017

      Interview

      Applied online and received an email from one of their internal recruiters. She explained that, since they were receiving so many applicants, they were using a coding challenge to filter out those that might not be qualified. The challenge was a 3-hour-allotted test entirely in JavaScript asking to write functions to solve three fairly trivial, non-real world situations. Each had a description of the desired input and output and tests attached that had to be passed. It was a fairly simple test, taking only about 2 hours. Following that I was informed that I passed on to a call with the recruiter where we chatted about the available positions that fit my skill set and my past experience and typical first interview "get to know you" questions. Following that I was set up for a technical interview which is where things went a bit sideways. The developer I met with clearly didn't want to be there and hadn't so much as glanced at my resume, portfolio, summary, or open source work on GitHub. The developer spent about 45 minutes asking pretty junior level development questions that were from a prepared list and only vaguely engaging in conversation. I was told before the technical interview that the followup would be a take-home project that would then be reviewed with a developer and possibly more technical interviews but I withdrew before that point.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      What is hoisting in JavaScript and what is it used for?
      Answer question

      Question 2

      What are the different options for the position property in CSS and what do they do?
      Answer question

      Question 3

      What are some features you don't like about such-and-such JavaScript framework?
      Answer question

      Question 4

      What's your favorite feature of ES2015?
      Answer question
      10

      Other Senior JavaScript Engineer Interview Reviews for Elastic

      Senior JavaScript Engineer Interview

      Jul 19, 2022
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Vancouver, BC
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Elastic (Vancouver, BC) in Jul 2022

      Interview

      I applied from a LinkedId job posting. I was contacted by a Technical Recruiter. We arranged for the first interview. I minute before the interview was to begin, the meeting disappeared from my calendar. I then received an email indicating that due to budgetting, the position was no longer available.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      I was one minute away from finding out.
      Answer question
      5

      Senior JavaScript Engineer Interview

      Oct 4, 2019
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Elastic

      Interview

      Initial interview was with a recruiter, then a technical interview with two engineers. Technical interview involved a live coding session. All the interviews were done over zoom. Because of the distributed nature of the company, finding times that work for everyone means your interview may be at odd hours (very early in the AM, or late at night)

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How to flatten a nested JS object into an object keys in dot notation.
      Answer question

      Senior JavaScript Engineer Interview

      Aug 15, 2019
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Remote, OR
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Elastic (Remote, OR) in May 2019

      Interview

      I applied in May, was contacted by a recruiter exactly a month later, then went through all the rounds: an initial call with the recruiter, a chat with two engineers (technical portion), a chat with the tech lead for the team I was applying for, and finally a chat with two engineering directors just about two full months after applying. The process was long, and due to my interviewers being in various timezones, I had to move my schedule around a bit to accommodate and work my way through the process. I won't argue that I should have gotten an offer or that the process was unfair-- just that it was slow and in the end, I wasn't even notified if I was selected or not. I was essentially ghosted. I find it frustrating that I can put so much effort into an interview process and not even receive a simple rejection email with some feedback. Because the process was so long, I was able to work fully through the full interview process with several companies, and I found that Elastic was the worst with communication, which is a shame because I think it would be a pretty cool set of products to work on.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Here's a fake pull request. How would you review it?
      Answer question
      5
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      Elastic response
      6y
      Thank you for sharing your feedback with us, we are sorry to hear about the lack of follow through from our side, which created a very poor exerience for you. We will investigate what happened and raise the issue with the recruiter.

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