Elastic application questions — all 42, word for word
Elastic hires through Greenhouse. Beyond name, email and CV, its application form asks 42 questions, 39 of them required. 2 of them are required, fixed-choice questions about your eligibility to work. A cover letter is optional.
758 roles were open when this was last checked, mostly in engineering and sales. The questions below are the form's own wording, not a paraphrase.
What Elastic has open
These are the roles the form was read from, as Elastic titles them, in United States, Canada, Spain, Greece:
- ABM Manager, Global Public Sector
- ABM Regional Manager, AMER
- AI Tool Admin
- AWS Alliance Director — EMEA
- AWS Partner Development Manager - North America
- Account Executive
- Account Executive Federal Civilian (Financial Regulatory & SSA)
- Account Executive Public Sector
- Agentic AI Engineer
- Analytics Engineer, HR Analytics
- Business Analyst, Marketing-1 (Fixed Term)
- Channel Account Representative - Enterprise East
38 of the questions below are ones at most two of the 213 employers measured ask (median: 18), the least standard being “By selecting 'I acknowledge' and submitting this application, you confirm that you have read Elastic's Candidate Privacy Statement and understand how your data will be processed to evaluate your candidacy. In jurisdictions where consent is legally required, your submission constitutes express consent to the processing of your personal data for recruitment purposes.”.
The eligibility questions
These are required, and answered from a fixed list rather than in your own words: work authorisation, visa sponsorship or security clearance. Employers often use questions like these to filter applications automatically, but Greenhouse's public data does not say whether Elastic does — so treat them as the answers most likely to matter, not as a verdict. Answer them honestly either way.
| Question | Answers accepted |
|---|---|
| Will you require Elastic's sponsorship to continue or extend your work authorization status? required, fixed choice | Yes, No |
| Is your most recent country of citizenship one of the following countries: Cuba, Iran, North Korea (DPRK), or Syria? required, fixed choice | Yes, No |
Every question on the form
| Question | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
| Will you require Elastic's sponsorship to continue or extend your work authorization status? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Is your most recent country of citizenship one of the following countries: Cuba, Iran, North Korea (DPRK), or Syria? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| First Name | text | Yes |
| Last Name | text | Yes |
| Preferred First Name | text | No |
| text | Yes | |
| Phone | text | No |
| Resume/CV | file | Yes |
| Cover Letter | file | No |
| Professional Profile (LinkedIn, Github, Website, etc) | text | No |
| In what countries do you have the unrestricted right to work? | text | Yes |
| Gender Pronouns (She/Her/Hers, He/Him/His, They/Them/Theirs, etc.) | text | No |
| By selecting 'I acknowledge' and submitting this application, you confirm that you have read Elastic's Candidate Privacy Statement and understand how your data will be processed to evaluate your candidacy. In jurisdictions where consent is legally required, your submission constitutes express consent to the processing of your personal data for recruitment purposes. I acknowledge |
select | Yes |
| LinkedIn URL | text | Yes |
| Do you have professional experience building agentic workflows or multi-agent systems (e.g., with LangGraph, LangChain, AutoGen, or similar frameworks)? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Do you have hands-on experience with Terraform or another Infrastructure-as-Code tool? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Are you proficient in Python or TypeScript for backend/agent development? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Do you have experience with RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) or vector search/relevance engines (e.g., Elasticsearch, Pinecone, Weaviate)? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| What interests you in this specific role at Elastic? | textarea | Yes |
| Describe a GenAI or agentic project you built independently, end-to-end. What problem did it solve, what tools/frameworks did you use, and what made it "autonomous" rather than just conversational? | textarea | Yes |
| Do you currently reside in EST timezone? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Do you have experience leading in-house creative teams in B2B technology? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Portfolio link | textarea | Yes |
| Which b2b tech organization/s have you directly led creative teams? | textarea | Yes |
| Do you have prior experience at AWS in a partner sales role? Do you understand how AWS operates internally, how co-sell decisions are made, and how to build the right relationships to move deals forward? | textarea | Yes |
| Do you have 12+ years of experience in technology partnerships, with a track record of managing large-scale cloud or hyperscaler alliances, including AWS Marketplace and co-sell programmes? | textarea | Yes |
| Are you located in one of the following countries or regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea (DPRK), Syria, or Russia, including the Ukrainian territories annexed by Russia (The Crimea region of Ukraine, The Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), The Luhansk People's Republic (LNR), Kherson or Zaporizhzhia) Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Is your most recent legal permanent residency in one of the following countries: Cuba, Iran, North Korea (DPRK), or Syria? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| How should we communicate with you? Email, Phone Call, Text Message, WhatsApp |
multiselect | Yes |
| Have you discussed applying for this role with your current manager? Please know that you will be required to make your current manager aware in order to continue the interview process. Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| What is your motivation for applying to this role and what skill sets would you be able to bring to the role? | textarea | Yes |
| Have you been in your current role for at least 12 months? | textarea | Yes |
| Please acknowledge that you have reviewed our privacy statement at the bottom of our job posting. For additional details, please see our privacy statement linked below. Acknowledge/Consent |
select | Yes |
| Who is your current employer? | text | Yes |
| Are you located in Canada? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| LinkedIn Profile: | text | Yes |
| Do you have at least 2 years of experience in an Account-Based Marketing (ABM) or strategic field marketing role? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Do you have working knowledge of government buying cycles and procurement processes? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| At which organization(s) did you market to Public Sector accounts, and in what capacity (e.g., federal, state/local, education)? | textarea | Yes |
| LinkedIn Profile | text | Yes |
| Do you have experience marketing technical or hi-tech products (e.g., cybersecurity, cloud, AI/ML, developer tools) to technical buyers such as IT, engineering, or security personas? Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| At which companies have you marketed technical or hi-tech products (e.g., cybersecurity, cloud, AI/ML, developer tools)? | text | Yes |
| Are you located in Austin, TX or Arlington, VA? This is a requirement as this is a hybrid role. Yes, No |
select | Yes |
| Which of the following have you personally done in a professional role? (select all that apply) Built, extended, or substantially modified data extraction/integration from an HRIS reporting layer or API (e.g., Workday RaaS/Prism), Built, extended, or substantially modified data extraction/integration from an ATS reporting layer or API (e.g., Greenhouse Harvest API), Built, extended, or substantially modified extraction from another HR/talent data source via its API or reporting layer (please specify below), None of the above — my experience has been limited to dashboards or reports built by others |
multiselect | Yes |
| Which of the following have you personally Built, extended, or substantially modified in a production environment? (select all that apply) BigQuery pipelines or data models, dbt models or projects, Orchestration (e.g., Cloud Composer, Airflow), Other GCP data tooling (please specify), None of the above |
multiselect | Yes |
| Describe a specific project in three parts: (1) What HR or talent data source did you work with directly, and what was your role in extracting or building on it? (2) Which teams or stakeholders did this work support? (3) What decision or outcome did it enable? | textarea | Yes |
| Where did you gain your GCP experience? Please list the company and role(s), approximate dates, and the specific GCP tools you used (for example, BigQuery, dbt, Cloud Composer, Dataflow). | text | Yes |
| Please tell me about a complex data project you had to work on and the outcome. | textarea | Yes |
| Must have SAAS experience and have worked with internal stakeholders on a regular cadence. Do you have both? If so, please expand below. | textarea | Yes |
What it's really asking about
Grouped by what each question is for, so you can prepare the answers that repeat across employers.
| Topic | Questions |
|---|---|
| Other | 20 |
| Years of experience | 9 |
| Portfolio and links | 4 |
| Work authorisation | 4 |
| Remote or on-site | 2 |
| Cover letter | 1 |
| Visa sponsorship | 1 |
| Voluntary diversity questions (EEOC) | 1 |
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Before you apply
Have the answers to the required questions ready before you open the form — Elastic's asks for 39 of them, and Greenhouse does not save a partial application by default. Settle the eligibility questions first — they are the ones with no room to elaborate, so knowing your answer before you start tells you whether the rest of the form is worth your time.