After Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
- 8%Founded something4
- 18%Joined a startup9
- 20%Joined a big company10
- 54%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Chan Zuckerberg Initiative most often go to Google. Of them, 8% found something next and 18% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 2m
Not Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 61 people on a map of 67,181, No. 389 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 610.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 915% of the people here
- Moved on
- 5285% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 2mmiddle half 1y 6m to 3y 8m
Put Chan Zuckerberg Initiative side by side with another employer.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for Google (8% of recorded departures).
How long people stay
15%<1y
25%1-2y
42%2-4y
13%4-7y
4%7y+
52 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
2016 to 2026: 66 joined, 57 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%95
0Eng Scorer caliber, 40 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer18
- Software Engineer17
- Software Engineer Intern13
- Staff Software Engineer5
- Engineering Manager3
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 7% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 10%Exceptional4 people
- 15%Strong6 people
- 43%Solid17 people
- 33%Emerging or unproven13 people
40 of the 61 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
10 of the 40 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 25%. 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.
49%Titles that rose26 of 53 classified people
- 49%Rose26 people
- 43%Stayed level23 people
- 8%Fell4 people
53 of the 61 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
- Stanford18.0%
- UC Berkeley18.0%
- Carnegie Mellon6.6%
- Georgia Tech6.6%
- UCLA6.6%
- MIT4.9%
- UC San Diego4.9%
- University of Maryland4.9%
The 8 most listed schools among the 61 people here with a school on file.
11 of the 61 people here with a school on file list Stanford, 11 list UC Berkeley and 4 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
57%have a public GitHub account on their profile
35 of the 61 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
77% of the people who have worked at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Everyone on the map
- 77%SF Bay Area47 · map 41%
- 16%New York10 · map 18%
- 7%Somewhere else4
All 61 people who worked at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 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 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative: 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 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 61 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative: 9 are there now, 52 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 4 people, 8% of recorded departures.
- Most arrive from Meta: 5 people. Then Google.
- Median tenure at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative: 2y 2m, middle half 1y 6m to 3y 8m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, 8% went to a founder title next, 18% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 20% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 40 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: Stanford, listed by 11 of the 61 people here with one on file (18.0%). Then UC Berkeley (11).
- 77% of the 61 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.
- 57% of the 61 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 26 rose, 23 stayed level, 4 fell, out of the 53 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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