After Cursor
- 100%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Cursor most often go to Anthropic and xAI. The median tenure is 9m
Not Cursor's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 71 people on a map of 67,181, No. 328 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 710.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 6389% of the people here
- Moved on
- 811% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 9mmiddle half 6m to 1y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Plaid. Most leave for Anthropic (38% of recorded departures).
14 of 65 recorded arrivals shown, 51 more from 44 other companies6 of 8 recorded departures shown, 2 more to 2 other companies
How long people stay
70%<1y
24%1-2y
4%2-4y
1%4-7y
0%7y+
70 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
0021
<3022
<3023
6024
30025
33826
joined left2026 is a partial year
2021 to 2026: 71 joined, 8 left.
Caliber
90mediantop 10%97
0Eng Scorer caliber, 41 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer38
- Engineering6
- Research Scientist6
- Head of Engineering4
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 20%Exceptional8 people
- 59%Strong24 people
- 12%Solid5 people
- 10%Emerging or unproven4 people
41 of the 71 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
32 of the 41 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 78%. 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.
Where they studied
- Stanford15.5%
- MIT14.1%
- Carnegie Mellon11.3%
- UC Berkeley9.9%
- USC5.6%
- Cornell4.2%
- Eth Zurich4.2%
- Harvard4.2%
The 8 most listed schools among the 71 people here with a school on file.
11 of the 71 people here with a school on file list Stanford, 10 list MIT and 8 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
51%have a public GitHub account on their profile
36 of the 71 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
69% of the people who have worked at Cursor and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Cursor
Everyone on the map
- 69%SF Bay Area49 · map 41%
- 27%New York19 · map 18%
- 4%Somewhere else3
All 71 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 working at Cursor: 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 Cursor, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 71 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Cursor: 63 are there now, 8 have moved on.
- Most leave for Anthropic: 3 people, 38% of recorded departures. Then xAI.
- Most arrive from Plaid: 5 people. Then Augment Code and Notion.
- Median tenure at Cursor: 9m, middle half 6m to 1y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Cursor, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, fewer than 3 joined a company of 200 or fewer, and fewer than 3 joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 90 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 41 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Engineering.
- Top school: Stanford, listed by 11 of the 71 people here with one on file (15.5%). Then MIT (10).
- 69% of the 71 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.
- 51% of the 71 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
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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