After Chief
- 21%Joined a startup3
- 79%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Chief most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 21% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y
Not Chief's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 39 people on a map of 67,181, No. 612 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 390.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1846% of the people here
- Moved on
- 2154% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3ymiddle half 2y to 4y 8m
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
5%<1y
18%1-2y
44%2-4y
33%4-7y
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39 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
2015 to 2026: 39 joined, 21 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (28).
Titles held here
- Member14
- Founding Member10
- Chief Member4
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
Where they studied
- University of Michigan10.3%
The one school among the 39 people here with a school on file.
4 of the 39 people here with a school on file list University of Michigan.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
23%have a public GitHub account on their profile
9 of the 39 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
49% of the people who have worked at Chief and list a location live in Los Angeles today, against 5% of everyone on the map.
Chief
Everyone on the map
- 49%Los Angeles19 · map 5%
- 28%New York11 · map 18%
- 8%SF Bay Area3 · map 41%
- 8%Washington DC3 · map 13%
- 8%Somewhere else3
All 39 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 working at Chief: 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 Chief, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 39 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Chief: 18 are there now, 21 have moved on.
- Median tenure at Chief: 3y, middle half 2y to 4y 8m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Chief, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 21% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and fewer than 3 joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Member, then Founding Member.
- Top school: University of Michigan, listed by 4 of the 39 people here with one on file (10.3%).
- 49% of the 39 people here who list a location live in Los Angeles today, against 5% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 23% of the 39 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
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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