After Chime
- 21%Joined a startup3
- 21%Joined a big company3
- 57%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Chime most often go to a long tail of companies. 21% go small. Median stay 2y 11m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Chime's headcount: 59 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 155 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 590.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 4678% of the people here
- Moved on
- 1322% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 11mmiddle half 1y 11m to 5y
Put Chime 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. Most arrive from Meta.
14 recorded departures to 14 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them
3Meta3 of 58 recorded arrivals shown, 55 more from 52 other companies0 of 14 recorded departures shown, 14 more to 14 other companies
How long people stay
3%<1y
22%1-2y
36%2-4y
34%4-7y
3%7y+
58 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: 60 joined, 14 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%85
0Eng Scorer caliber, 59 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer24
- Senior Software Engineer22
- Senior Engineering Manager5
- Staff Software Engineer4
- Engineering Manager3
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 3% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 8%Exceptional or strong5 people
- 51%Solid30 people
- 41%Emerging24 people
59 of the 59 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 5 of the 59 people here with a read sit in them, 8%. A tier is the band an Eng Scorer 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 together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
25%Titles that rose9 of 36 classified people
- 25%Rose9 people
- 75%Stayed level or fell27 people
36 of the 59 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 who recorded one title here and then left, it is 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. A title that matches no rung is left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely, being a different ladder. That leaves 36 of the 59 people here classified, and it leans towards people who have left: someone still here on a single recorded title has nothing to be measured against. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley10.2%
- Carnegie Mellon8.5%
- Cal Poly SLO5.1%
- Rutgers5.1%
- University of Maryland5.1%
The 5 most listed schools among the 59 people here with a school on file.
Of the 59 people here with a school on file, 6 list UC Berkeley, 5 list Carnegie Mellon and 3 list Cal Poly SLO. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
54%have a public GitHub account on their profile
32 of the 59 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check did not find reads the same as no account, so this is a floor rather than a census.
Across the 325 companies on the map that can show this figure, the median is 38%.
Where they are now
81% of the people who have worked at Chime and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Chime
Everyone on the map
- 81%SF Bay Area48 · map 47%
- 17%New York10 · map 33%
All 59 people who worked at Chime 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 Chime: 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 Chime, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 59 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Chime: 46 are there now and 13 have moved on.
- The most common previous employer before Chime is Meta (3 people).
- The median tenure at Chime is 2y 11m (middle half 1y 11m to 5y).
- Of those who moved on from Chime, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 21% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 21% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Chime is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (59 scored).
- The most common title held at Chime is Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Of the 59 people here with a school on file, 6 list UC Berkeley (10.2%), then Carnegie Mellon (5). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 81% of the 59 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 54% of the 59 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
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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