After eBay
- 3%Founded something7
- 15%Joined a startup42
- 44%Joined a big company120
- 38%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave eBay most often go to Google, Meta and Apple. Of them, 15% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 4m
Not eBay's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 306 people on a map of 67,181, No. 77 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 3060.5% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 248% of the people here
- Moved on
- 28292% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 4mmiddle half 1y 1m to 4y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Google (10% of recorded departures).
54 of 230 recorded arrivals shown, 176 more from 163 other companies106 of 284 recorded departures shown, 178 more to 152 other companies
How long people stay
20%<1y
22%1-2y
31%2-4y
18%4-7y
9%7y+
237 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
101112
342113
353214
71915
272016
171217
393318
152719
191520
271921
132822
131223
82024
61125
<3<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 271 joined, 281 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%92
0Eng Scorer caliber, 147 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer59
- Software Engineer Intern39
- Senior Software Engineer29
- Software Engineer II23
- Software Engineer III19
- Member of Technical Staff18
- Staff Software Engineer17
- Data Scientist8
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 24% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 3%Exceptional4 people
- 18%Strong27 people
- 30%Solid44 people
- 42%Emerging62 people
- 6%Unproven9 people
146 of the 306 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
31 of the 146 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 21%. 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.
39%Titles that rose105 of 267 classified people
- 39%Rose105 people
- 50%Stayed level134 people
- 10%Fell28 people
267 of the 306 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 Berkeley11.3%
- Stanford10.0%
- USC8.0%
- Carnegie Mellon7.3%
- Columbia3.7%
- Georgia Tech3.7%
- UIUC3.3%
- Harvard3.0%
The 8 most listed schools among the 300 people here with a school on file.
34 of the 300 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 30 list Stanford and 24 list USC. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
43%have a public GitHub account on their profile
132 of the 305 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
71% of the people who have worked at eBay and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
eBay
Everyone on the map
- 71%SF Bay Area217 · map 41%
- 10%New York31 · map 18%
- 5%Seattle14 · map 5%
- 3%Los Angeles9 · map 5%
- 2%Washington DC5 · map 13%
- 1.0%Austin3 · map 0.8%
- 9%Somewhere else26
305 of the 306 people who worked at eBay list a location, and every share here is over those 305.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at eBay: 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 eBay, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 306 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at eBay: 24 are there now, 282 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 27 people, 10% of recorded departures. Then Meta and Apple.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 15 people. Then Microsoft and Apple.
- Median tenure at eBay: 2y 4m, middle half 1y 1m to 4y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after eBay, 3% went to a founder title next, 15% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 44% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 82 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 147 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 34 of the 300 people here with one on file (11.3%). Then Stanford (30).
- 71% of the 305 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.
- 43% of the 305 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 105 rose, 134 stayed level, 28 fell, out of the 267 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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