After DoorDash
- 5%Founded something9
- 20%Joined a startup34
- 22%Joined a big company37
- 53%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave DoorDash most often go to Meta, OpenAI and LinkedIn. Of them, 5% found something next and 20% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 1m
Not DoorDash's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 393 people on a map of 67,181, No. 55 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 3930.6% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 22457% of the people here
- Moved on
- 16943% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 1mmiddle half 1y 1m to 3y 9m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Meta (6% of recorded departures).
108 of 391 recorded arrivals shown, 283 more from 236 other companies44 of 171 recorded departures shown, 127 more to 112 other companies
The DoorDash mafia
9 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 5% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars cover the ’17 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
19%<1y
27%1-2y
32%2-4y
20%4-7y
2%7y+
370 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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<3015
4<316
4317
5<318
28719
341320
722221
634322
363123
722724
672825
251326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2014 to 2026: 414 joined, 190 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%92
0Eng Scorer caliber, 229 scored99
there now 83 moved on 84. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer191
- Senior Software Engineer55
- Software Engineer Intern39
- Staff Software Engineer29
- Engineering Manager22
- Machine Learning Engineer22
- Software Engineer II15
- Member of Technical Staff6
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 4%Exceptional8 people
- 23%Strong53 people
- 46%Solid106 people
- 22%Emerging50 people
- 5%Unproven11 people
228 of the 393 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
61 of the 228 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 27%. 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.
38%Titles that rose75 of 200 classified people
- 38%Rose75 people
- 57%Stayed level115 people
- 5%Fell10 people
200 of the 393 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
- UC Berkeley16.2%
- Georgia Tech8.7%
- Carnegie Mellon7.2%
- Stanford6.9%
- UC San Diego3.9%
- UIUC3.6%
- University of Waterloo2.8%
- USC2.8%
The 8 most listed schools among the 390 people here with a school on file.
63 of the 390 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 34 list Georgia Tech and 28 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
32%have a public GitHub account on their profile
127 of the 392 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
63% of the people who have worked at DoorDash and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
DoorDash
Everyone on the map
- 63%SF Bay Area245 · map 41%
- 20%New York79 · map 18%
- 7%Seattle28 · map 5%
- 3%Los Angeles12 · map 5%
- 2%Washington DC7 · map 13%
- 5%Somewhere else21
392 of the 393 people who worked at DoorDash list a location, and every share here is over those 392.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at DoorDash: 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 DoorDash, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 393 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at DoorDash: 224 are there now, 169 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 11 people, 6% of recorded departures. Then OpenAI and LinkedIn.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 35 people. Then AWS and Meta.
- Median tenure at DoorDash: 2y 1m, middle half 1y 1m to 3y 9m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after DoorDash, 5% went to a founder title next, 20% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 22% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 229 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 63 of the 390 people here with one on file (16.2%). Then Georgia Tech (34).
- 63% of the 392 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.
- 32% of the 392 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 75 rose, 115 stayed level, 10 fell, out of the 200 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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