After Cohere
- 11%Founded something4
- 22%Joined a startup8
- 30%Joined a big company11
- 38%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Cohere most often go to Google. Of them, 11% found something next and 22% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 8m
Not Cohere's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 59 people on a map of 67,181, No. 403 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 590.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1932% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4068% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 8mmiddle half 10m to 2y 5m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Google (13% of recorded departures).
4 of 48 recorded arrivals shown, 44 more from 41 other companies5 of 40 recorded departures shown, 35 more to 32 other companies
How long people stay
29%<1y
33%1-2y
33%2-4y
4%4-7y
2%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
2015 to 2026: 63 joined, 44 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (26).
Titles held here
- Member of Technical Staff19
- Software Engineer5
- Software Engineer Intern5
- Machine Learning Engineer4
- Staff Software Engineer4
- Intern of Technical Staff3
- Machine Learning Intern3
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 8% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
26%Titles that rose10 of 39 classified people
- 26%Rose10 people
- 54%Stayed level21 people
- 21%Fell8 people
39 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 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
- University of Waterloo15.3%
- Stanford13.6%
- Carnegie Mellon6.8%
- Columbia6.8%
- MIT6.8%
- UC Berkeley6.8%
- University of Toronto6.8%
- Brown5.1%
The 8 most listed schools among the 59 people here with a school on file.
9 of the 59 people here with a school on file list University of Waterloo, 8 list Stanford and 4 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
42%have a public GitHub account on their profile
25 of the 59 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
54% of the people who have worked at Cohere and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Cohere
Everyone on the map
- 54%SF Bay Area32 · map 41%
- 24%New York14 · map 18%
- 22%Somewhere else13
All 59 people who worked at Cohere 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 Cohere: 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 Cohere, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 59 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Cohere: 19 are there now, 40 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 5 people, 13% of recorded departures.
- Most arrive from Google: 4 people.
- Median tenure at Cohere: 1y 8m, middle half 10m to 2y 5m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Cohere, 11% went to a founder title next, 22% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 30% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Member of Technical Staff, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: University of Waterloo, listed by 9 of the 59 people here with one on file (15.3%). Then Stanford (8).
- 54% of the 59 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.
- 42% of the 59 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 10 rose, 21 stayed level, 8 fell, out of the 39 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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