After Coupang
- 10%Joined a startup4
- 55%Joined a big company22
- 35%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Coupang most often go to Meta and Amazon. Of them, 10% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y
Not Coupang's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 69 people on a map of 67,181, No. 341 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 690.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3043% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3957% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 1y 3m to 3y 5m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Meta (24% of recorded departures).
20 of 71 recorded arrivals shown, 51 more from 47 other companies15 of 41 recorded departures shown, 26 more to 23 other companies
How long people stay
14%<1y
36%1-2y
29%2-4y
18%4-7y
3%7y+
66 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3<315
<3<316
6<317
3418
3<319
4320
11421
12422
8<323
141224
6925
<3026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2015 to 2026: 73 joined, 43 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 31 scored99
Titles held here
- Staff Software Engineer12
- Senior Staff Software Engineer7
- Software Engineer7
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer7
- Software Engineer Intern5
- Machine Learning Engineer4
- Senior Software Engineer3
- Staff Software Engineer II3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 19%Strong6 people
- 52%Solid16 people
- 29%Emerging9 people
31 of the 69 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
6 of the 31 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 19%. 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.
22%Titles that rose8 of 37 classified people
- 22%Rose8 people
- 46%Stayed level17 people
- 32%Fell12 people
37 of the 69 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
- Carnegie Mellon8.7%
- Stanford8.7%
- University of Washington7.3%
- UC Berkeley5.8%
- UT Austin5.8%
- MIT4.4%
- Peking University4.4%
The 7 most listed schools among the 69 people here with a school on file.
6 of the 69 people here with a school on file list Carnegie Mellon, 6 list Stanford and 5 list University of Washington. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
38%have a public GitHub account on their profile
26 of the 69 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
68% of the people who have worked at Coupang and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Coupang
Everyone on the map
- 68%SF Bay Area47 · map 41%
- 22%Seattle15 · map 5%
- 6%New York4 · map 18%
- 4%Somewhere else3
All 69 people who worked at Coupang 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 Coupang: 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 Coupang, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 69 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Coupang: 30 are there now, 39 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 10 people, 24% of recorded departures. Then Amazon.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 8 people. Then Google and Meta.
- Median tenure at Coupang: 2y, middle half 1y 3m to 3y 5m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Coupang, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 10% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 55% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 31 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Staff Software Engineer, then Senior Staff Software Engineer.
- Top school: Carnegie Mellon, listed by 6 of the 69 people here with one on file (8.7%). Then Stanford (6).
- 68% of the 69 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.
- 38% of the 69 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 8 rose, 17 stayed level, 12 fell, out of the 37 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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