After Etsy
- 12%Joined a startup8
- 25%Joined a big company16
- 63%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Etsy most often go to Meta. Of them, 12% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y 1m
Not Etsy's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 98 people on a map of 67,181, No. 240 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 980.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3435% of the people here
- Moved on
- 6465% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 1mmiddle half 2y to 5y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Meta (9% of recorded departures).
11 of 91 recorded arrivals shown, 80 more from 78 other companies6 of 65 recorded departures shown, 59 more to 55 other companies
How long people stay
9%<1y
15%1-2y
37%2-4y
26%4-7y
12%7y+
91 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3<312
4<313
<3<314
3315
9516
6<317
9618
10419
7820
20521
16722
5823
51524
3325
0<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 101 joined, 71 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 62 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer31
- Software Engineer22
- Engineering Manager13
- Staff Software Engineer13
- Senior Engineering Manager9
- Software Engineer Intern9
- Software Engineer II8
- Senior Software Engineer II6
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 8% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 6%Exceptional4 people
- 8%Strong5 people
- 42%Solid26 people
- 44%Emerging27 people
62 of the 98 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
9 of the 62 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 15%. 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.
57%Titles that rose46 of 80 classified people
- 57%Rose46 people
- 35%Stayed level28 people
- 8%Fell6 people
80 of the 98 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 Berkeley11.5%
- Carnegie Mellon9.4%
- Stanford6.3%
- Cornell5.2%
- NYU4.2%
- Penn4.2%
- USC4.2%
- Arizona State3.1%
The 8 most listed schools among the 96 people here with a school on file.
11 of the 96 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 9 list Carnegie Mellon and 6 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
58%have a public GitHub account on their profile
57 of the 98 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
49% of the people who have worked at Etsy and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
Etsy
Everyone on the map
- 49%New York48 · map 18%
- 35%SF Bay Area34 · map 41%
- 5%Seattle5 · map 5%
- 11%Somewhere else11
All 98 people who worked at Etsy 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 Etsy: 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 Etsy, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 98 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Etsy: 34 are there now, 64 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 6 people, 9% of recorded departures.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 4 people. Then JPMorganChase and Google.
- Median tenure at Etsy: 3y 1m, middle half 2y to 5y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Etsy, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 12% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 25% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 62 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 11 of the 96 people here with one on file (11.5%). Then Carnegie Mellon (9).
- 49% of the 98 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 18% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 58% of the 98 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 46 rose, 28 stayed level, 6 fell, out of the 80 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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