After Coinbase
- 8%Founded something14
- 19%Joined a startup33
- 20%Joined a big company35
- 53%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Coinbase most often go to Google, Meta and AWS. Of them, 8% found something next and 19% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 11m
Not Coinbase's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 328 people on a map of 67,181, No. 71 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 3280.5% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 15748% of the people here
- Moved on
- 17152% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 11mmiddle half 1y to 4y 3m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Google (6% of recorded departures).
77 of 341 recorded arrivals shown, 264 more from 227 other companies44 of 180 recorded departures shown, 136 more to 123 other companies
The Coinbase mafia
14 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 8% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars cover the ’18 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
23%<1y
29%1-2y
18%2-4y
25%4-7y
4%7y+
292 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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0013
<3<314
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<3<316
9<317
17818
23519
272220
781821
816522
153223
392324
602025
7726
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 362 joined, 205 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%91
0Eng Scorer caliber, 229 scored99
there now 82 moved on 84. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer138
- Senior Software Engineer69
- Software Engineer Intern67
- Staff Software Engineer48
- Engineering Manager17
- Software Engineer II16
- Senior Engineering Manager4
- Senior Staff Software Engineer3
8 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.
- 5%Exceptional12 people
- 16%Strong36 people
- 49%Solid113 people
- 28%Emerging64 people
- 2%Unproven4 people
229 of the 328 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
48 of the 229 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 21%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
42%Titles that rose88 of 211 classified people
- 42%Rose88 people
- 53%Stayed level112 people
- 5%Fell11 people
211 of the 328 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 Berkeley12.0%
- Stanford6.2%
- Georgia Tech5.9%
- University of Waterloo5.5%
- Carnegie Mellon5.2%
- MIT4.0%
- UC San Diego3.7%
- UCLA3.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 325 people here with a school on file.
39 of the 325 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 20 list Stanford and 19 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
41%have a public GitHub account on their profile
136 of the 328 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
55% of the people who have worked at Coinbase and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Coinbase
Everyone on the map
- 55%SF Bay Area179 · map 41%
- 30%New York99 · map 18%
- 4%Washington DC12 · map 13%
- 3%Seattle11 · map 5%
- 3%Los Angeles9 · map 5%
- 0.9%Boston3 · map 2%
- 5%Somewhere else15
All 328 people who worked at Coinbase 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 Coinbase: 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 Coinbase, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 328 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Coinbase: 157 are there now, 171 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 11 people, 6% of recorded departures. Then Meta and AWS.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 20 people. Then Google and Meta.
- Median tenure at Coinbase: 1y 11m, middle half 1y to 4y 3m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Coinbase, 8% went to a founder title next, 19% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 20% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 229 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 39 of the 325 people here with one on file (12.0%). Then Stanford (20).
- 55% of the 328 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.
- 41% of the 328 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 88 rose, 112 stayed level, 11 fell, out of the 211 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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