After Airbnb
- 7%Founded something12
- 17%Joined a startup29
- 23%Joined a big company39
- 52%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Airbnb most often go to Meta, Google and Stripe. 7% found something next. 17% go small. Median stay 2y 11m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Airbnb's headcount: 235 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 33 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2350.9% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 6126% of the people here
- Moved on
- 17474% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 11mmiddle half 1y 6m to 4y 10m
Put Airbnb 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 Meta. Most leave for Meta (11% of recorded departures).
71 of 240 recorded arrivals shown, 169 more from 145 other companies73 of 174 recorded departures shown, 101 more to 90 other companies
The Airbnb mafia
12 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 7% 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
11%<1y
23%1-2y
30%2-4y
27%4-7y
9%7y+
190 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1012
6313
7114
17915
321216
361617
292218
493319
72320
202321
141722
111523
101024
14625
2526
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 255 joined, 195 left.
Caliber
87mediantop 10%96
0Eng Scorer caliber, 235 scored99
there now 84 moved on 87. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer83
- Software Engineer Intern61
- Senior Software Engineer49
- Staff Software Engineer19
- Engineering Manager13
- Data Engineer4
- Senior Engineering Manager4
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 4% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 11%Exceptional25 people
- 40%Strong95 people
- 40%Solid94 people
- 9%Emerging or unproven21 people
235 of the 235 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 120 of the 235 people here with a read sit in them, 51%. 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.
41%Titles that rose75 of 184 classified people
- 41%Rose75 people
- 55%Stayed level102 people
- 4%Fell7 people
184 of the 235 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 184 of the 235 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 Berkeley18.5%
- Stanford12.9%
- MIT6.0%
- Carnegie Mellon5.2%
- Harvard3.9%
- Princeton3.5%
- Penn3.0%
- Georgia Tech2.6%
The 8 most listed schools among the 232 people here with a school on file.
Of the 232 people here with a school on file, 43 list UC Berkeley, 30 list Stanford and 14 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
62%have a public GitHub account on their profile
146 of the 235 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
72% of the people who have worked at Airbnb and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Airbnb
Everyone on the map
- 72%SF Bay Area168 · map 47%
- 19%New York44 · map 33%
- 3%Los Angeles8 · map 6%
- 3%Seattle8 · map 3%
- 3%Somewhere else6
234 of the 235 people who worked at Airbnb list a location, and every share here is over those 234.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Airbnb: 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 Airbnb, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 235 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Airbnb: 61 are there now and 174 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Airbnb is Meta (20 people, 11% of recorded departures), followed by Google and Stripe.
- The most common previous employer before Airbnb is Meta (19 people), followed by Google and Twitter.
- The median tenure at Airbnb is 2y 11m (middle half 1y 6m to 4y 10m).
- Of those who moved on from Airbnb, 7% went on to a founder title, 17% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 23% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Airbnb is 87 on the 0 to 99 scale (235 scored).
- The most common title held at Airbnb is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 232 people here with a school on file, 43 list UC Berkeley (18.5%), then Stanford (30). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 72% of the 234 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.
- 62% of the 235 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 184 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 75 rose, 102 stayed level and 7 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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