Zelcastalumni map

People who leave Cedar most often go to a long tail of companies. 23% go small. Median stay 2y

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Cedar's headcount: 24 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 399 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
240.1% of everyone on the map
There now
1146% of the people here
Moved on
1354% of the people here
Median tenure
2ymiddle half 11m to 4y 9m

Put Cedar 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 Cedar yet.

After Cedar

  • 23%Joined a startup3
  • 77%Elsewhere

Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.

How long people stay

25%<1y
25%1-2y
21%2-4y
25%4-7y
4%7y+
2y median tenuremiddle half 11m to 4y 9m

24 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: 24 joined, 13 left.

Caliber

Not enough scored profiles here yet (24).

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer7
  2. Engineering Manager5
  3. Senior Software Engineer5
  4. Senior Engineering Manager3

4 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 8% of people here.

Where they studied

  1. Penn12.5%

The one school among the 24 people here with a school on file.

Of the 24 people here with a school on file, 3 list Penn.

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

71% of the people who have worked at Cedar and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.

Cedar
Everyone on the map
  • 71%New York17 · map 33%
  • 25%SF Bay Area6 · map 47%

All 24 people who worked at Cedar 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 Cedar: 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.

Key facts

  • 24 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Cedar: 11 are there now and 13 have moved on.
  • The median tenure at Cedar is 2y (middle half 11m to 4y 9m).
  • Of those who moved on from Cedar, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 23% 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 Cedar is Software Engineer, then Engineering Manager.
  • Of the 24 people here with a school on file, 3 list Penn (12.5%). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 71% of the 24 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.

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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