After Carta
- 15%Founded something5
- 18%Joined a startup6
- 67%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Carta most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 15% found something next and 18% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 2m
Not Carta's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 52 people on a map of 67,181, No. 453 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 520.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1835% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3465% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 2mmiddle half 1y to 3y 11m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Carta yet.
How long people stay
20%<1y
25%1-2y
33%2-4y
22%4-7y
0%7y+
51 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
2017 to 2026: 52 joined, 34 left.
Caliber
78mediantop 10%84
0Eng Scorer caliber, 37 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer16
- Software Engineer11
- Software Engineer II6
- Senior Software Engineer II5
- Engineering Manager3
- Senior Software Engineer I3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 41%Strong or solid15 people
- 59%Emerging or unproven22 people
37 of the 52 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Fewer than 3 of the 37 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, too few to print as a count. 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.
51%Titles that rose21 of 41 classified people
- 51%Rose21 people
- 34%Stayed level14 people
- 15%Fell6 people
41 of the 52 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.
Where they studied
- UCLA9.8%
- UC Berkeley7.8%
- University of Waterloo7.8%
- Stanford5.9%
The 4 most listed schools among the 51 people here with a school on file.
5 of the 51 people here with a school on file list UCLA, 4 list UC Berkeley and 4 list University of Waterloo. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
62%have a public GitHub account on their profile
32 of the 52 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
63% of the people who have worked at Carta and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Carta
Everyone on the map
- 63%SF Bay Area33 · map 41%
- 27%New York14 · map 18%
- 6%Seattle3 · map 5%
All 52 people who worked at Carta 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 Carta: 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 Carta, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 52 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Carta: 18 are there now, 34 have moved on.
- Median tenure at Carta: 2y 2m, middle half 1y to 3y 11m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Carta, 15% went to a founder title next, 18% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and fewer than 3 joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 78 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 37 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: UCLA, listed by 5 of the 51 people here with one on file (9.8%). Then UC Berkeley (4).
- 63% of the 52 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 41% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 62% of the 52 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 21 rose, 14 stayed level, 6 fell, out of the 41 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder before and after.
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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