After Bird
- 20%Founded something4
- 20%Joined a startup4
- 60%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Bird most often go to a long tail of companies. 20% found something next. 20% go small. Median stay 2y 2m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Bird's headcount: 21 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 465 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 210.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 15% of the people here
- Moved on
- 2095% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 2mmiddle half 1y 2m to 3y 3m
Put Bird 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.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Bird yet.
How long people stay
24%<1y
24%1-2y
29%2-4y
19%4-7y
5%7y+
21 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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0016
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16018
5519
0720
0421
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0323
0024
0025
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 21 joined, 20 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (21).
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer4
- Group Product Manager3
- Software Engineer3
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 19% of people here.
Where they studied
- USC14.3%
The one school among the 21 people here with a school on file.
Of the 21 people here with a school on file, 3 list USC.
Public work
Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer than that here.
Where they are now
81% of the people who have worked at Bird and list a location live in Los Angeles today, against 6% of everyone on the map.
Bird
Everyone on the map
- 81%Los Angeles17 · map 6%
- 19%Somewhere else4
All 21 people who worked at Bird 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 Bird: 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 Bird, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 21 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Bird: 1 are there now and 20 have moved on.
- The median tenure at Bird is 2y 2m (middle half 1y 2m to 3y 3m).
- Of those who moved on from Bird, 20% went on to a founder title, 20% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and fewer than 3 joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The most common title held at Bird is Senior Software Engineer, then Group Product Manager.
- Of the 21 people here with a school on file, 3 list USC (14.3%). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 81% of the 21 people here who list a location live in Los Angeles today, against 6% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
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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