After Affirm
- 17%Founded something10
- 26%Joined a startup15
- 9%Joined a big company5
- 48%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Affirm most often go to Settle. 17% found something next. 26% go small. Median stay 3y 5m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Affirm's headcount: 102 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 92 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1020.4% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 4140% of the people here
- Moved on
- 6160% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 5mmiddle half 1y 9m to 4y 10m
Put Affirm side by side with another company, every number against every number.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Fast. Most leave for Settle (5% of recorded departures).
The Affirm mafia
10 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 17% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars are the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders count in the total.
How long people stay
12%<1y
13%1-2y
31%2-4y
35%4-7y
8%7y+
97 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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1016
8017
14518
17419
17720
17321
212122
41723
2324
5425
1226
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 107 joined, 66 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%92
0Eng Scorer caliber, 102 scored99
there now 83 moved on 85. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer54
- Senior Software Engineer38
- Staff Software Engineer20
- Software Engineer II11
- Software Engineer Intern9
- Engineering Manager7
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 4%Exceptional4 people
- 32%Strong33 people
- 44%Solid45 people
- 20%Emerging or unproven20 people
102 of the 102 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 37 of the 102 people here with a read sit in them, 36%. A tier is the band an Eng Scorer caliber score falls in, so this is the same measurement as the median on the caliber card, opened up. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
57%Titles that rose46 of 81 classified people
- 57%Rose46 people
- 40%Stayed level32 people
- 4%Fell3 people
81 of the 102 people here had a title that could be placed on the ladder before and after.
A title rose when the last title recorded here sits higher on the ladder than the first; for someone who recorded one title here and then left, it is measured against the first title of their next role. The ladder runs intern, junior, mid, senior, staff or manager, principal, director, VP, then founder or C-level. A title that matches no rung is left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely, being a different ladder. That leaves 81 of the 102 people here classified, and it leans towards people who have left: someone still here on a single recorded title has nothing to be measured against.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley13.9%
- Carnegie Mellon11.9%
- MIT7.9%
- UCLA6.9%
- UC San Diego5.0%
- University of Michigan5.0%
- USC5.0%
- Columbia4.0%
The 8 most listed schools among the 101 people here with a school on file.
Of the 101 people here with a school on file, 14 list UC Berkeley, 12 list Carnegie Mellon and 8 list MIT. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
50%have a public GitHub account on their profile
51 of the 102 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check did not find reads the same as no account, so this is a floor rather than a census.
Across the 325 companies on the map that can show this figure, the median is 38%.
Where they are now
61% of the people who have worked at Affirm and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Affirm
Everyone on the map
- 61%SF Bay Area62 · map 47%
- 36%New York37 · map 33%
- 3%Somewhere else3
All 102 people who worked at Affirm list a location, and every share here is over them.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Affirm: a metro here does not mean the company has an office in it. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map, for comparison.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Affirm, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 102 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Affirm: 41 are there now and 61 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Affirm is Settle (3 people, 5% of recorded departures).
- The most common previous employer before Affirm is Fast (8 people), followed by Google and Meta.
- The median tenure at Affirm is 3y 5m (middle half 1y 9m to 4y 10m).
- Of those who moved on from Affirm, 17% went on to a founder title, 26% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 9% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Affirm is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (102 scored).
- The most common title held at Affirm is Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Of the 101 people here with a school on file, 14 list UC Berkeley (13.9%), then Carnegie Mellon (12). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 61% of the 102 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 50% of the 102 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 81 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 46 rose, 32 stayed level and 3 fell.
About this data: built from 144,786 jobs across 26,572 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated August 20, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving; companies with fewer than 20 people on the map are not shown, and destinations with fewer than 3 people are folded into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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