After Better
- 7%Founded something3
- 22%Joined a startup10
- 13%Joined a big company6
- 59%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Better most often go to Google. 7% found something next. 22% go small. Median stay 1y 10m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Better's headcount: 51 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 180 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 510.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 714% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4486% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 10mmiddle half 1y 5m to 2y 5m
Put Better 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 Google (7% of recorded departures).
47 recorded arrivals from 46 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 47 recorded arrivals shown, 47 more from 46 other companies3 of 46 recorded departures shown, 43 more to 41 other companies
How long people stay
12%<1y
46%1-2y
32%2-4y
10%4-7y
0%7y+
50 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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1115
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3018
8219
24220
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0323
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2125
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 54 joined, 47 left.
Caliber
78mediantop 10%84
0Eng Scorer caliber, 51 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer19
- Software Engineer15
- Engineering Manager7
- Staff Software Engineer5
- Senior Engineering Manager4
- Director of Engineering3
- Software Engineer Intern3
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 6% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 39%Strong or solid20 people
- 61%Emerging or unproven31 people
51 of the 51 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. Fewer than 3 of the 51 people here with a read sit in them, which is too few to print as a count. 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.
43%Titles that rose20 of 46 classified people
- 43%Rose20 people
- 46%Stayed level21 people
- 11%Fell5 people
46 of the 51 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 46 of the 51 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
- Columbia6.0%
- NYU6.0%
The 2 most listed schools among the 50 people here with a school on file.
Of the 50 people here with a school on file, 3 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
67%have a public GitHub account on their profile
34 of the 51 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
78% of the people who have worked at Better and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Better
Everyone on the map
- 78%New York40 · map 33%
- 16%SF Bay Area8 · map 47%
- 6%Somewhere else3
All 51 people who worked at Better 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 Better: 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 Better, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 51 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Better: 7 are there now and 44 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Better is Google (3 people, 7% of recorded departures).
- The median tenure at Better is 1y 10m (middle half 1y 5m to 2y 5m).
- Of those who moved on from Better, 7% went on to a founder title, 22% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 13% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Better is 78 on the 0 to 99 scale (51 scored).
- The most common title held at Better is Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 50 people here with a school on file, 3 list Columbia (6.0%), then NYU (3). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 78% of the 51 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.
- 67% of the 51 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 46 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 20 rose, 21 stayed level and 5 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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