After Dropbox
- 8%Founded something11
- 24%Joined a startup35
- 12%Joined a big company17
- 57%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Dropbox most often go to Meta, Google and Figma. 8% found something next. 24% go small. Median stay 3y 2m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Dropbox's headcount: 175 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 50 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1750.7% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 2313% of the people here
- Moved on
- 15287% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 2mmiddle half 2y to 4y 11m
Put Dropbox 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 Google. Most leave for Meta (5% of recorded departures).
49 of 156 recorded arrivals shown, 107 more from 98 other companies42 of 149 recorded departures shown, 107 more to 88 other companies
The Dropbox mafia
11 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 8% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars are the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders count in the total.
How long people stay
6%<1y
16%1-2y
39%2-4y
28%4-7y
10%7y+
146 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1112
13513
19414
261115
191516
231117
201218
202419
132820
212221
71222
41023
21024
0425
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 188 joined, 169 left.
Caliber
85mediantop 10%96
0Eng Scorer caliber, 175 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer87
- Software Engineer Intern40
- Senior Software Engineer21
- Engineering Manager12
- Senior Engineering Manager6
- Staff Engineer4
- Staff Software Engineer4
- Principal Engineer3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 12% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 15%Exceptional26 people
- 29%Strong50 people
- 46%Solid80 people
- 11%Emerging or unproven19 people
175 of the 175 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 76 of the 175 people here with a read sit in them, 43%. 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.
34%Titles that rose51 of 152 classified people
- 34%Rose51 people
- 60%Stayed level91 people
- 7%Fell10 people
152 of the 175 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 152 of the 175 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 Berkeley16.9%
- Stanford14.0%
- MIT9.3%
- Carnegie Mellon5.8%
- Penn4.1%
- Columbia3.5%
- UCLA3.5%
- UT Austin3.5%
The 8 most listed schools among the 172 people here with a school on file.
Of the 172 people here with a school on file, 29 list UC Berkeley, 24 list Stanford and 16 list MIT. 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
95 of the 175 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
78% of the people who have worked at Dropbox and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Dropbox
Everyone on the map
- 78%SF Bay Area136 · map 47%
- 15%New York26 · map 33%
- 2%Los Angeles4 · map 6%
- 2%Seattle3 · map 3%
- 3%Somewhere else5
174 of the 175 people who worked at Dropbox list a location, and every share here is over those 174.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Dropbox: 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 Dropbox, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 175 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Dropbox: 23 are there now and 152 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Dropbox is Meta (8 people, 5% of recorded departures), followed by Google and Figma.
- The most common previous employer before Dropbox is Google (16 people), followed by Meta and Microsoft.
- The median tenure at Dropbox is 3y 2m (middle half 2y to 4y 11m).
- Of those who moved on from Dropbox, 8% went on to a founder title, 24% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 12% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Dropbox is 85 on the 0 to 99 scale (175 scored).
- The most common title held at Dropbox is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 172 people here with a school on file, 29 list UC Berkeley (16.9%), then Stanford (24). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 78% of the 174 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 175 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 152 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 51 rose, 91 stayed level and 10 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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