After Chief
- 100%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Chief most often go to a long tail of companies. Median stay 2y 9m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Chief's headcount: 27 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 347 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 270.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1141% of the people here
- Moved on
- 1659% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 9mmiddle half 2y to 3y 5m
Put Chief 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 Chief yet.
How long people stay
7%<1y
15%1-2y
56%2-4y
22%4-7y
0%7y+
27 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
0012
0013
0014
1015
0116
0017
0018
0019
5020
9221
5022
5823
1324
1125
0126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 27 joined, 16 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (27).
Titles held here
- Member10
- Founding Member7
- Chief Member3
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
Where they studied
- University of Michigan11.1%
The one school among the 27 people here with a school on file.
Of the 27 people here with a school on file, 3 list University of Michigan.
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
52% of the people who have worked at Chief and list a location live in Los Angeles today, against 6% of everyone on the map.
Chief
Everyone on the map
- 52%Los Angeles14 · map 6%
- 37%New York10 · map 33%
- 11%SF Bay Area3 · map 47%
All 27 people who worked at Chief 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 Chief: 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 Chief, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 27 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Chief: 11 are there now and 16 have moved on.
- The median tenure at Chief is 2y 9m (middle half 2y to 3y 5m).
- Of those who moved on from Chief, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, fewer than 3 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 Chief is Member, then Founding Member.
- Of the 27 people here with a school on file, 3 list University of Michigan (11.1%). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 52% of the 27 people here who list a location live in Los Angeles today, against 6% 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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