After AppNexus
- 18%Joined a startup6
- 82%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave AppNexus most often go to Xandr. 18% go small. Median stay 2y
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not AppNexus's headcount: 34 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 290 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 340.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 00% of the people here
- Moved on
- 34100% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 1y 3m to 3y 4m
Put AppNexus 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 leave for Xandr (35% of recorded departures).
32 recorded arrivals from 30 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
Xandr1235%0 of 32 recorded arrivals shown, 32 more from 30 other companies12 of 34 recorded departures shown, 22 more to 21 other companies
How long people stay
14%<1y
34%1-2y
40%2-4y
9%4-7y
3%7y+
35 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
5112
5313
4114
6415
6616
4317
81118
3519
1720
0121
0122
0023
0024
0025
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 42 joined, 43 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 34 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer14
- Software Engineer II6
- Senior Software Engineer5
- Software Engineer Intern3
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 21% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 21%Strong7 people
- 41%Solid14 people
- 38%Emerging or unproven13 people
34 of the 34 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 7 of the 34 people here with a read sit in them, 21%. 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.
45%Titles that rose15 of 33 classified people
- 45%Rose15 people
- 55%Stayed level or fell18 people
33 of the 34 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 33 of the 34 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. A direction 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.
Where they studied
- Columbia14.7%
- NYU8.8%
The 2 most listed schools among the 34 people here with a school on file.
Of the 34 people here with a school on file, 5 list Columbia and 3 list NYU. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
56%have a public GitHub account on their profile
19 of the 34 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
76% of the people who have worked at AppNexus and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
AppNexus
Everyone on the map
- 76%New York26 · map 33%
- 12%SF Bay Area4 · map 47%
- 9%Los Angeles3 · map 6%
All 34 people who worked at AppNexus 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 AppNexus: 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 AppNexus, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 34 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at AppNexus: 0 are there now and 34 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after AppNexus is Xandr (12 people, 35% of recorded departures).
- The median tenure at AppNexus is 2y (middle half 1y 3m to 3y 4m).
- Of those who moved on from AppNexus, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 18% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and fewer than 3 joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at AppNexus is 82 on the 0 to 99 scale (34 scored).
- The most common title held at AppNexus is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer II.
- Of the 34 people here with a school on file, 5 list Columbia (14.7%), then NYU (3). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 76% of the 34 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 56% of the 34 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
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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