Elastic: How a Fully Distributed Team of 250 People Works
summary
Elastic describes running a remote-first engineering organization of 250 people across about 30 countries and 18 time zones building Elasticsearch, Kibana and Elastic Cloud/Elastic Cloud Enterprise. Collaboration relies on Gmail/Google Groups, Slack, GitHub, Zoom and Google Drive with CI via Jenkins and waffle-style boards; workflows are async-first with two-review pull requests, recorded demos, mentor onboarding including a Mountain View immersion, follow-the-sun support, and a six-week release cadence driven by automated tests.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 2:33The founders: 2012
- 5:11Email: Filters included
- 5:56Email transparency
- 7:05Emails become t-shirts
- 8:36GitHub for non-tech stuff
- 13:58Zoom video conferencing
- 15:53Engineering all-hands: 2x a year
- 16:21Engineering all-hands: 2 times a year
- 18:17GitHub to track things
- 21:26Release: Train analogy
- 27:27Average experience
- 31:07Key takeaways
