After Coursera
- 6%Founded something4
- 19%Joined a startup14
- 35%Joined a big company25
- 40%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Coursera most often go to Google, Meta and Amazon. Of them, 6% found something next and 19% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y
Not Coursera's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 81 people on a map of 67,181, No. 288 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 810.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 67% of the people here
- Moved on
- 7593% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 10m to 4y 8m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Google (11% of recorded departures).
17 of 70 recorded arrivals shown, 53 more from 49 other companies29 of 76 recorded departures shown, 47 more to 47 other companies
How long people stay
26%<1y
19%1-2y
17%2-4y
24%4-7y
14%7y+
58 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 85 joined, 80 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%95
0Eng Scorer caliber, 50 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern24
- Software Engineer22
- Senior Software Engineer13
- Engineering Manager3
- Software Engineer II3
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 14% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 8%Exceptional4 people
- 28%Strong14 people
- 46%Solid23 people
- 18%Emerging or unproven9 people
50 of the 81 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
18 of the 50 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 36%. 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.
42%Titles that rose28 of 66 classified people
- 42%Rose28 people
- 48%Stayed level32 people
- 9%Fell6 people
66 of the 81 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
- Stanford24.7%
- University of Waterloo13.6%
- UC Berkeley8.6%
- MIT4.9%
- University of Mumbai4.9%
- University of Toronto4.9%
- Duke3.7%
- Georgia Tech3.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 81 people here with a school on file.
20 of the 81 people here with a school on file list Stanford, 11 list University of Waterloo and 7 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
59%have a public GitHub account on their profile
48 of the 81 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
59% of the people who have worked at Coursera and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Coursera
Everyone on the map
- 59%SF Bay Area48 · map 41%
- 21%New York17 · map 18%
- 7%Seattle6 · map 5%
- 6%Washington DC5 · map 13%
- 6%Somewhere else5
All 81 people who worked at Coursera 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 Coursera: 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 Coursera, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 81 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Coursera: 6 are there now, 75 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 8 people, 11% of recorded departures. Then Meta and Amazon.
- Most arrive from Google: 7 people. Then Kleiner Perkins and Apple.
- Median tenure at Coursera: 2y, middle half 10m to 4y 8m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Coursera, 6% went to a founder title next, 19% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 35% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 50 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: Stanford, listed by 20 of the 81 people here with one on file (24.7%). Then University of Waterloo (11).
- 59% of the 81 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.
- 59% of the 81 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 28 rose, 32 stayed level, 6 fell, out of the 66 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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