ex-Elastic here, too. It was a great place to work pre-IPO. It seems the culture has shifted a lot since the IPO, though.

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echelon 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Might've been better if AWS and GCP didn't steal your goodies and take so much meat off the bones.

Fair source > Open source.

Trillion dollar companies need to pay to play.

Open source removes your jobs, your exit equity, and transfers it to the hyperscalers. Sucks that it happened to you guys.

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democracy 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It does actually. I am pro-OSS as sharing knowledge and innovation, I am not sure at this stage I am happy sharing my work with people using LLMs for anything... OSS gonna change for sure.

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limagnolia 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Elastic isn't Open Source though, they abandoned Open Source. It seems to me like this is an example of non-Open Source whatever licensing causing job loss. Or just plain bad leadership.

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echelon 2 hours ago | parent [-]

They switched from open source when big tech stole their goodies.

It was too late to stop it.

	▲	cowsandmilk an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It’s been five years since they changed their license. Today’s layoffs cannot be blamed on AWS and GCP. It’s been years and they have differentiated products now.
	▲	limagnolia 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Big tech didn't steal anything. Elastic used open source software as the foundation of their product (specifically, Apache Lucene), and released their product as open source. The license allowed Elastic to do so, and likewise, the license Elastic used allowed "big tech" to use Elastics product. If it wasn't for open source, Elastic wouldn't exist. Then, Elastic whined about Amazon using Elastic under the open source license they used to build their product. They whined that Amazon wasn't contributing enough. So they switched the license to their product. So Amazon took over maintaining the open source software. Doing exactly what Elastic asked them to do. Sorry, but everything about Elastic, and especially this most recent announcement of layoffs, scream "bad leadership".