After Discord
- 21%Joined a startup6
- 17%Joined a big company5
- 62%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Discord most often go to OpenAI and Snap Inc.. 21% go small. Median stay 2y 6m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Discord's headcount: 55 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 167 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 550.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 2545% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3055% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 6mmiddle half 1y 7m to 3y 4m
Put Discord 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 Meta. Most leave for OpenAI (21% of recorded departures).
12 of 51 recorded arrivals shown, 39 more from 38 other companies9 of 29 recorded departures shown, 20 more to 18 other companies
How long people stay
7%<1y
30%1-2y
44%2-4y
19%4-7y
0%7y+
54 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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2020
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 55 joined, 30 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%95
0Eng Scorer caliber, 55 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer30
- Software Engineer14
- Staff Software Engineer4
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer3
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 9%Exceptional5 people
- 24%Strong13 people
- 44%Solid24 people
- 24%Emerging or unproven13 people
55 of the 55 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 18 of the 55 people here with a read sit in them, 33%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
28%Titles that rose11 of 40 classified people
- 28%Rose11 people
- 57%Stayed level23 people
- 15%Fell6 people
40 of the 55 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 who recorded one title here and then left, it is 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. A title that matches no rung is left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely, being a different ladder. That leaves 40 of the 55 people here classified, and it leans towards people who have left: someone still here on a single recorded title has nothing to be measured against.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley14.6%
- Stanford9.1%
- Carnegie Mellon7.3%
- Penn5.5%
- UC San Diego5.5%
- UIUC5.5%
- UT Austin5.5%
The 7 most listed schools among the 55 people here with a school on file.
Of the 55 people here with a school on file, 8 list UC Berkeley, 5 list Stanford and 4 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
71%have a public GitHub account on their profile
39 of the 55 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
87% of the people who have worked at Discord and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Discord
Everyone on the map
- 87%SF Bay Area48 · map 47%
- 7%New York4 · map 33%
- 5%Somewhere else3
All 55 people who worked at Discord 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 Discord: 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.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Discord, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 55 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Discord: 25 are there now and 30 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Discord is OpenAI (6 people, 21% of recorded departures), followed by Snap Inc..
- The most common previous employer before Discord is Meta (5 people), followed by Sentropy Technologies (acquired by Discord) and LinkedIn.
- The median tenure at Discord is 2y 6m (middle half 1y 7m to 3y 4m).
- Of those who moved on from Discord, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 21% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 17% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Discord is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (55 scored).
- The most common title held at Discord is Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 55 people here with a school on file, 8 list UC Berkeley (14.5%), then Stanford (5). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 87% of the 55 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.
- 71% of the 55 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 40 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 11 rose, 23 stayed level and 6 fell.
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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