After Confluent
- 11%Founded something6
- 28%Joined a startup16
- 16%Joined a big company9
- 46%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Confluent most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 11% found something next and 28% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y 1m
Not Confluent's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 95 people on a map of 67,181, No. 246 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 950.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3537% of the people here
- Moved on
- 6063% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 1mmiddle half 1y 7m to 4y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon.
60 recorded departures to 54 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them
10%10Amazon
6%6Uber
23 of 101 recorded arrivals shown, 78 more from 74 other companies0 of 60 recorded departures shown, 60 more to 54 other companies
How long people stay
6%<1y
25%1-2y
38%2-4y
26%4-7y
5%7y+
81 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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3<316
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3<318
26819
161620
171121
151122
131023
7724
4525
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2015 to 2026: 108 joined, 73 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 50 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer37
- Senior Software Engineer29
- Software Engineer Intern24
- Senior Software Engineer II6
- Staff Software Engineer5
- Principal Engineer3
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.
- 18%Exceptional or strong9 people
- 52%Solid26 people
- 22%Emerging11 people
- 8%Unproven4 people
50 of the 95 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
9 of the 50 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 18%. 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.
44%Titles that rose32 of 72 classified people
- 44%Rose32 people
- 51%Stayed level37 people
- 4%Fell3 people
72 of the 95 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 Berkeley10.6%
- Georgia Tech8.5%
- Stanford5.3%
- University of Maryland5.3%
- UT Austin5.3%
- UIUC4.3%
- Carnegie Mellon3.2%
- Columbia3.2%
The 8 most listed schools among the 94 people here with a school on file.
10 of the 94 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 8 list Georgia Tech and 5 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
40%have a public GitHub account on their profile
38 of the 95 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
51% of the people who have worked at Confluent and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Confluent
Everyone on the map
- 51%SF Bay Area48 · map 41%
- 19%New York18 · map 18%
- 11%Washington DC10 · map 13%
- 7%Seattle7 · map 5%
- 3%Austin3 · map 0.8%
- 9%Somewhere else9
All 95 people who worked at Confluent 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 Confluent: 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 Confluent, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 95 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Confluent: 35 are there now, 60 have moved on.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 10 people. Then Uber and Meta.
- Median tenure at Confluent: 3y 1m, middle half 1y 7m to 4y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Confluent, 11% went to a founder title next, 28% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 16% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 50 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 10 of the 94 people here with one on file (10.6%). Then Georgia Tech (8).
- 51% of the 95 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.
- 40% of the 95 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 32 rose, 37 stayed level, 3 fell, out of the 72 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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