After Compass
- 16%Joined a startup11
- 25%Joined a big company17
- 58%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Compass most often go to Meta and Google. Of them, 16% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 7m
Not Compass's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 80 people on a map of 67,181, No. 291 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 800.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1114% of the people here
- Moved on
- 6986% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 7mmiddle half 1y 1m to 2y 11m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Microsoft. Most leave for Meta (6% of recorded departures).
7 of 68 recorded arrivals shown, 61 more from 57 other companies7 of 67 recorded departures shown, 60 more to 57 other companies
How long people stay
18%<1y
42%1-2y
26%2-4y
8%4-7y
6%7y+
78 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3<312
3413
<3<314
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12018
20519
101020
13821
43222
3523
<3024
<3025
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 78 joined, 69 left.
Caliber
77mediantop 10%86
0Eng Scorer caliber, 49 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer19
- Software Engineer14
- Software Engineer II9
- Engineering Manager8
- Senior Software Engineer II7
- Software Engineer Intern3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 5% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 10%Exceptional or strong5 people
- 24%Solid12 people
- 51%Emerging25 people
- 14%Unproven7 people
49 of the 80 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
5 of the 49 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 10%. 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.
37%Titles that rose25 of 67 classified people
- 37%Rose25 people
- 51%Stayed level34 people
- 12%Fell8 people
67 of the 80 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
- Georgia Tech8.8%
- UC Berkeley6.3%
- Carnegie Mellon5.0%
- Northwestern3.8%
- Rutgers3.8%
- Stanford3.8%
- UCLA3.8%
- USC3.8%
The 8 most listed schools among the 80 people here with a school on file.
7 of the 80 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 5 list UC Berkeley and 4 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
48%have a public GitHub account on their profile
38 of the 80 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
41% of the people who have worked at Compass and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
Compass
Everyone on the map
- 41%New York33 · map 18%
- 29%SF Bay Area23 · map 41%
- 9%Seattle7 · map 5%
- 9%Washington DC7 · map 13%
- 6%Los Angeles5 · map 5%
- 6%Somewhere else5
All 80 people who worked at Compass 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 Compass: 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 Compass, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 80 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Compass: 11 are there now, 69 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 4 people, 6% of recorded departures. Then Google.
- Most arrive from Microsoft: 4 people. Then AWS.
- Median tenure at Compass: 1y 7m, middle half 1y 1m to 2y 11m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Compass, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 16% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 25% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 77 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 49 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 7 of the 80 people here with one on file (8.8%). Then UC Berkeley (5).
- 41% of the 80 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 18% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 48% of the 80 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 25 rose, 34 stayed level, 8 fell, out of the 67 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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