After Ancestry
- 11%Joined a startup3
- 39%Joined a big company11
- 50%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Ancestry most often go to Google. Of them, 11% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 7m
Not Ancestry's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 36 people on a map of 67,181, No. 669 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 360.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 617% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3083% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 7mmiddle half 2y 2m to 5y 4m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Google (14% of recorded departures).
24 recorded arrivals from 24 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 24 recorded arrivals shown, 24 more from 24 other companies4 of 28 recorded departures shown, 24 more to 24 other companies
How long people stay
20%<1y
5%1-2y
45%2-4y
5%4-7y
25%7y+
20 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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3<316
3017
4<318
4519
3420
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<3<322
4523
3424
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 36 joined, 31 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (20).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern8
- Senior Software Engineer6
- Software Engineer6
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 22% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
55%Titles that rose17 of 31 classified people
- 55%Rose17 people
- 45%Stayed level14 people
31 of the 36 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 with one title here who then left, it's 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. Titles that match no rung are left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely as a different ladder. What's left leans towards people who have left: someone still here on one recorded title has nothing to measure against.
Where they studied
- BYU11.1%
- Carnegie Mellon8.3%
- Georgia Tech8.3%
- UC San Diego8.3%
- UC Santa Cruz8.3%
The 5 most listed schools among the 36 people here with a school on file.
4 of the 36 people here with a school on file list BYU, 3 list Carnegie Mellon and 3 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
36%have a public GitHub account on their profile
13 of the 36 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check missed reads the same as no account, so this is a floor.
31% is the median across the 857 companies that can show this figure.
Where they are now
58% of the people who have worked at Ancestry and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Ancestry
Everyone on the map
- 58%SF Bay Area21 · map 41%
- 14%New York5 · map 18%
- 11%Seattle4 · map 5%
- 17%Somewhere else6
All 36 people who worked at Ancestry 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 working at Ancestry: a metro here isn't an office there. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Ancestry, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 36 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Ancestry: 6 are there now, 30 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 4 people, 14% of recorded departures.
- Median tenure at Ancestry: 2y 7m, middle half 2y 2m to 5y 4m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Ancestry, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 11% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 39% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer Intern, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: BYU, listed by 4 of the 36 people here with one on file (11.1%). Then Carnegie Mellon (3).
- 58% of the 36 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 41% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 36% of the 36 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
About this data: built from 352,028 jobs across 67,181 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated September 30, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving. Companies under 20 people on the map aren't shown, and destinations under 3 people fold into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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