After Braze
- 16%Joined a startup5
- 10%Joined a big company3
- 74%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Braze most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 16% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 10m
Not Braze's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 42 people on a map of 67,181, No. 565 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 420.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1229% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3071% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 10mmiddle half 1y 5m to 4y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon.
31 recorded departures to 27 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them
7%3Amazon
3 of 41 recorded arrivals shown, 38 more from 36 other companies0 of 31 recorded departures shown, 31 more to 27 other companies
How long people stay
17%<1y
17%1-2y
31%2-4y
26%4-7y
9%7y+
35 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2014 to 2026: 43 joined, 31 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 31 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer11
- Software Engineer Intern7
- Senior Software Engineer II5
- Engineering Manager4
- Senior Engineering Manager3
- Software Engineer3
- Software Engineer II3
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 2% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 16%Strong5 people
- 52%Solid16 people
- 32%Emerging or unproven10 people
31 of the 42 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
5 of the 31 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 16%. A tier is the band a 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 with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
66%Titles that rose23 of 35 classified people
- 66%Rose23 people
- 34%Stayed level or fell12 people
35 of the 42 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. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- MIT16.7%
- UC Berkeley9.5%
- Stanford7.1%
- University of Michigan7.1%
The 4 most listed schools among the 42 people here with a school on file.
7 of the 42 people here with a school on file list MIT, 4 list UC Berkeley and 3 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
52%have a public GitHub account on their profile
22 of the 42 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
50% of the people who have worked at Braze and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
Braze
Everyone on the map
- 50%New York21 · map 18%
- 33%SF Bay Area14 · map 41%
- 17%Somewhere else7
All 42 people who worked at Braze 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 Braze: 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 Braze, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 42 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Braze: 12 are there now, 30 have moved on.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 3 people.
- Median tenure at Braze: 2y 10m, middle half 1y 5m to 4y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Braze, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 16% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 10% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 31 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: MIT, listed by 7 of the 42 people here with one on file (16.7%). Then UC Berkeley (4).
- 50% of the 42 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 18% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 52% of the 42 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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