After Compass
- 16%Joined a startup6
- 11%Joined a big company4
- 73%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Compass most often go to a long tail of companies. 16% go small. Median stay 1y 7m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Compass's headcount: 43 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 224 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 430.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 614% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3786% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 7mmiddle half 1y 1m to 3y 5m
Put Compass 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.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Compass yet.
How long people stay
20%<1y
36%1-2y
25%2-4y
7%4-7y
11%7y+
44 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1012
2313
1114
3115
1116
1017
11018
10419
3620
5621
11422
1223
0024
1025
1026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 42 joined, 38 left.
Caliber
77mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 43 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer10
- Software Engineer10
- Engineering Manager6
- Software Engineer II5
4 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.
- 12%Exceptional or strong5 people
- 30%Solid13 people
- 47%Emerging20 people
- 12%Unproven5 people
43 of the 43 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 5 of the 43 people here with a read sit in them, 12%. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
47%Titles that rose17 of 36 classified people
- 47%Rose17 people
- 39%Stayed level14 people
- 14%Fell5 people
36 of the 43 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 36 of the 43 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
- UCLA7.0%
The one school among the 43 people here with a school on file.
Of the 43 people here with a school on file, 3 list UCLA.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
49%have a public GitHub account on their profile
21 of the 43 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
65% of the people who have worked at Compass and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Compass
Everyone on the map
- 65%New York28 · map 33%
- 23%SF Bay Area10 · map 47%
- 12%Los Angeles5 · map 6%
All 43 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 they worked at Compass: 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 Compass, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 43 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Compass: 6 are there now and 37 have moved on.
- The median tenure at Compass is 1y 7m (middle half 1y 1m to 3y 5m).
- Of those who moved on from Compass, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 16% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 11% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Compass is 77 on the 0 to 99 scale (43 scored).
- The most common title held at Compass is Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 43 people here with a school on file, 3 list UCLA (7.0%). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 65% of the 43 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 49% of the 43 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 36 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 17 rose, 14 stayed level and 5 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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