After Etsy
- 8%Joined a startup3
- 17%Joined a big company6
- 75%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Etsy most often go to a long tail of companies. Median stay 3y 9m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Etsy's headcount: 58 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 157 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 580.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 2238% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3662% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 9mmiddle half 2y 1m to 5y 5m
Put Etsy 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 Amazon.
36 recorded departures to 34 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them
3Amazon
3 of 55 recorded arrivals shown, 52 more from 50 other companies0 of 36 recorded departures shown, 36 more to 34 other companies
How long people stay
5%<1y
15%1-2y
33%2-4y
35%4-7y
13%7y+
55 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
2112
3113
2214
2215
6416
3117
3418
4219
3120
17521
10522
2423
1524
0225
0126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 58 joined, 40 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%90
0Eng Scorer caliber, 58 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer22
- Software Engineer14
- Engineering Manager11
- Senior Engineering Manager8
- Staff Software Engineer7
- Software Engineer II6
- Software Engineer Intern5
- Senior Software Engineer II4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 9% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 7%Exceptional4 people
- 9%Strong5 people
- 38%Solid22 people
- 47%Emerging27 people
58 of the 58 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 9 of the 58 people here with a read sit in them, 16%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
58%Titles that rose29 of 50 classified people
- 58%Rose29 people
- 34%Stayed level17 people
- 8%Fell4 people
50 of the 58 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 50 of the 58 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 Berkeley12.3%
- Carnegie Mellon10.5%
- Stanford7.0%
- Columbia5.3%
- NYU5.3%
The 5 most listed schools among the 57 people here with a school on file.
Of the 57 people here with a school on file, 7 list UC Berkeley, 6 list Carnegie Mellon and 4 list Stanford. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
64%have a public GitHub account on their profile
37 of the 58 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
59% of the people who have worked at Etsy and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Etsy
Everyone on the map
- 59%New York34 · map 33%
- 33%SF Bay Area19 · map 47%
- 7%Seattle4 · map 3%
All 58 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 they worked at Etsy: 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 Etsy, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 58 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Etsy: 22 are there now and 36 have moved on.
- The most common previous employer before Etsy is Amazon (3 people).
- The median tenure at Etsy is 3y 9m (middle half 2y 1m to 5y 5m).
- Of those who moved on from Etsy, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 8% 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 Etsy is 82 on the 0 to 99 scale (58 scored).
- The most common title held at Etsy is Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 57 people here with a school on file, 7 list UC Berkeley (12.3%), then Carnegie Mellon (6). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 59% of the 58 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 64% of the 58 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 50 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 29 rose, 17 stayed level and 4 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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