After Coinbase
- 11%Founded something12
- 17%Joined a startup19
- 15%Joined a big company17
- 58%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Coinbase most often go to Google, Meta and Amazon Web Services (AWS). 11% found something next. 17% go small. Median stay 1y 11m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Coinbase's headcount: 213 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 39 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2130.8% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 10248% of the people here
- Moved on
- 11152% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 11mmiddle half 1y to 4y 1m
Put Coinbase 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 Amazon. Most leave for Google (5% of recorded departures).
51 of 222 recorded arrivals shown, 171 more from 155 other companies24 of 118 recorded departures shown, 94 more to 87 other companies
The Coinbase mafia
12 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 11% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars are the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders count in the total.
How long people stay
25%<1y
29%1-2y
19%2-4y
24%4-7y
3%7y+
191 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1012
0013
2214
2015
1116
6117
11618
14419
171720
561321
554622
92323
251224
34625
4426
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 237 joined, 135 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%92
0Eng Scorer caliber, 213 scored99
there now 83 moved on 84. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer95
- Senior Software Engineer46
- Software Engineer Intern46
- Staff Software Engineer28
- Engineering Manager14
- Software Engineer II12
- Senior Engineering Manager4
7 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.
- 6%Exceptional12 people
- 16%Strong35 people
- 50%Solid107 people
- 26%Emerging56 people
- 1%Unproven3 people
213 of the 213 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 47 of the 213 people here with a read sit in them, 22%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
39%Titles that rose55 of 142 classified people
- 39%Rose55 people
- 59%Stayed level84 people
- 2%Fell3 people
142 of the 213 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 142 of the 213 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.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley14.7%
- University of Waterloo7.1%
- Carnegie Mellon4.7%
- Stanford3.8%
- USC3.8%
- UC Irvine2.8%
- UCLA2.8%
- UIUC2.8%
The 8 most listed schools among the 211 people here with a school on file.
Of the 211 people here with a school on file, 31 list UC Berkeley, 15 list University of Waterloo and 10 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
41%have a public GitHub account on their profile
87 of the 213 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
52% of the people who have worked at Coinbase and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Coinbase
Everyone on the map
- 52%SF Bay Area111 · map 47%
- 41%New York88 · map 33%
- 3%Los Angeles7 · map 6%
- 1%Washington DC3 · map 7%
- 2%Somewhere else4
All 213 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 they worked at Coinbase: 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 Coinbase, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 213 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Coinbase: 102 are there now and 111 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Coinbase is Google (6 people, 5% of recorded departures), followed by Meta and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- The most common previous employer before Coinbase is Amazon (12 people), followed by Google and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- The median tenure at Coinbase is 1y 11m (middle half 1y to 4y 1m).
- Of those who moved on from Coinbase, 11% went on to a founder title, 17% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 15% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Coinbase is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (213 scored).
- The most common title held at Coinbase is Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Of the 211 people here with a school on file, 31 list UC Berkeley (14.7%), then University of Waterloo (15). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 52% of the 213 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.
- 41% of the 213 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 142 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 55 rose, 84 stayed level and 3 fell.
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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