After Chime
- 24%Joined a startup8
- 21%Joined a big company7
- 55%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Chime most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 24% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y
Not Chime's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 87 people on a map of 67,181, No. 273 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 870.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 5563% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3237% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3ymiddle half 1y 11m to 4y 11m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta.
How long people stay
6%<1y
20%1-2y
35%2-4y
37%4-7y
2%7y+
84 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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4<319
15<320
25<321
8<322
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 88 joined, 33 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 64 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer32
- Software Engineer32
- Senior Engineering Manager7
- Staff Software Engineer6
- Engineering Manager5
- Lead Software Engineer3
- Software Engineer Intern3
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 2% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 13%Exceptional or strong8 people
- 42%Solid27 people
- 45%Emerging or unproven29 people
64 of the 87 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
8 of the 64 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 13%. 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.
32%Titles that rose19 of 59 classified people
- 32%Rose19 people
- 61%Stayed level36 people
- 7%Fell4 people
59 of the 87 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
- UC Berkeley10.3%
- Carnegie Mellon8.1%
- Stanford5.8%
- Columbia4.6%
- Cal Poly SLO3.5%
- Georgia Tech3.5%
- NYU3.5%
- Rutgers3.5%
The 8 most listed schools among the 87 people here with a school on file.
9 of the 87 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 7 list Carnegie Mellon and 5 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
54%have a public GitHub account on their profile
47 of the 87 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
80% of the people who have worked at Chime and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Chime
Everyone on the map
- 80%SF Bay Area70 · map 41%
- 13%New York11 · map 18%
- 7%Somewhere else6
All 87 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 working at Chime: 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 Chime, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 87 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Chime: 55 are there now, 32 have moved on.
- Most arrive from Meta: 5 people. Then Amazon and AWS.
- Median tenure at Chime: 3y, middle half 1y 11m to 4y 11m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Chime, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 24% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 21% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 64 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 9 of the 87 people here with one on file (10.3%). Then Carnegie Mellon (7).
- 80% of the 87 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.
- 54% of the 87 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 19 rose, 36 stayed level, 4 fell, out of the 59 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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