Zelcastalumni map

People who leave Cursor most often go to a long tail of companies. Median stay 8m

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Cursor's headcount: 37 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 266 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
370.1% of everyone on the map
There now
3492% of the people here
Moved on
38% of the people here
Median tenure
8mmiddle half 6m to 1y 1m

Put Cursor 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. Most arrive from Notion.

Cursor32 in · 3 out

3 recorded departures to 2 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them

3Notion3Plaid
6 of 32 recorded arrivals shown, 26 more from 22 other companies0 of 3 recorded departures shown, 3 more to 2 other companies

After Cursor

  • 100%Elsewhere

Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.

How long people stay

73%<1y
22%1-2y
5%2-4y
0%4-7y
0%7y+
8m median tenuremiddle half 6m to 1y 1m

37 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: 37 joined, 3 left.

Caliber

91mediantop 10%97
0Eng Scorer caliber, 37 scored99

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer21
  2. Engineering5
  3. Head of Engineering4

3 most common titles, by people who held them.

Behind the median

Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.

  • 22%Exceptional8 people
  • 59%Strong22 people
  • 19%Solid, emerging or unproven7 people

37 of the 37 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.

Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 30 of the 37 people here with a read sit in them, 81%. 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.

Where they studied

  1. Carnegie Mellon13.5%
  2. Stanford10.8%
  3. UC Berkeley10.8%
  4. MIT8.1%

The 4 most listed schools among the 37 people here with a school on file.

Of the 37 people here with a school on file, 5 list Carnegie Mellon, 4 list Stanford and 4 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

one square is one in a hundred
54%have a public GitHub account on their profile

20 of the 37 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

62% of the people who have worked at Cursor and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

Cursor
Everyone on the map
  • 62%SF Bay Area23 · map 47%
  • 38%New York14 · map 33%

All 37 people who worked at Cursor 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 Cursor: 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.

Key facts

  • 37 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Cursor: 34 are there now and 3 have moved on.
  • The most common previous employer before Cursor is Notion (3 people), followed by Plaid.
  • The median tenure at Cursor is 8m (middle half 6m to 1y 1m).
  • Of those who moved on from Cursor, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, fewer than 3 joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and fewer than 3 joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Cursor is 91 on the 0 to 99 scale (37 scored).
  • The most common title held at Cursor is Software Engineer, then Engineering.
  • Of the 37 people here with a school on file, 5 list Carnegie Mellon (13.5%), then Stanford (4). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 62% of the 37 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
  • 54% of the 37 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.

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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