After Brex
- 17%Founded something8
- 22%Joined a startup10
- 13%Joined a big company6
- 48%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Brex most often go to Meta, OpenAI and Slope. 17% found something next. 22% go small. Median stay 3y
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Brex's headcount: 71 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 133 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 710.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 2637% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4563% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3ymiddle half 2y to 4y 6m
Put Brex 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 arrive from Elph. Most leave for Meta (7% of recorded departures).
The Brex mafia
8 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 17% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars are the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders count in the total.
How long people stay
4%<1y
20%1-2y
41%2-4y
33%4-7y
1%7y+
69 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
2012 to 2026: 74 joined, 48 left.
Caliber
85mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 71 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer35
- Senior Software Engineer25
- Software Engineer II11
- Engineering Manager9
- Staff Software Engineer7
- Software Engineer Intern5
- Senior Engineering Manager3
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 4%Exceptional3 people
- 36%Strong24 people
- 48%Solid32 people
- 12%Emerging8 people
67 of the 71 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 27 of the 67 people here with a read sit in them, 40%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
52%Titles that rose32 of 61 classified people
- 52%Rose32 people
- 43%Stayed level26 people
- 5%Fell3 people
61 of the 71 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 61 of the 71 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
- UC Berkeley10.6%
- UCLA9.1%
- University of Waterloo7.6%
- Penn6.1%
- UIUC6.1%
- Stanford4.6%
The 6 most listed schools among the 66 people here with a school on file.
Of the 66 people here with a school on file, 7 list UC Berkeley, 6 list UCLA and 5 list University of Waterloo. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
51%have a public GitHub account on their profile
34 of the 67 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
48% of the people who have worked at Brex and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Brex
Everyone on the map
- 48%New York32 · map 33%
- 46%SF Bay Area31 · map 47%
- 4%Los Angeles3 · map 6%
67 of the 71 people who worked at Brex list a location, and every share here is over those 67.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Brex: 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 Brex, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 71 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Brex: 26 are there now and 45 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Brex is Meta (3 people, 7% of recorded departures), followed by OpenAI and Slope.
- The most common previous employer before Brex is Elph (3 people), followed by Google.
- The median tenure at Brex is 3y (middle half 2y to 4y 6m).
- Of those who moved on from Brex, 17% 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 Brex is 85 on the 0 to 99 scale (71 scored).
- The most common title held at Brex is Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Of the 66 people here with a school on file, 7 list UC Berkeley (10.6%), then UCLA (6). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 48% of the 67 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.
- 51% of the 67 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 61 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 32 rose, 26 stayed level and 3 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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