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.

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.