After Figma
- 9%Joined a startup3
- 17%Joined a big company6
- 74%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Figma most often go to Jane Street and OpenAI. Median stay 3y 6m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Figma's headcount: 133 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 70 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1330.5% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 9874% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3526% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 6mmiddle half 1y 10m to 4y 2m
Put Figma 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 Meta. Most leave for Jane Street (8% of recorded departures).
47 of 138 recorded arrivals shown, 91 more from 79 other companies6 of 37 recorded departures shown, 31 more to 27 other companies
How long people stay
10%<1y
17%1-2y
38%2-4y
34%4-7y
2%7y+
125 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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1119
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 139 joined, 41 left.
Caliber
87mediantop 10%96
0Eng Scorer caliber, 133 scored99
there now 87 moved on 92. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer83
- Engineering Manager14
- Senior Software Engineer14
- Software Engineer Intern14
- Staff Software Engineer5
- Senior Staff Software Engineer3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 11%Exceptional15 people
- 49%Strong65 people
- 35%Solid47 people
- 5%Emerging or unproven6 people
133 of the 133 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 80 of the 133 people here with a read sit in them, 60%. 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.
33%Titles that rose19 of 57 classified people
- 33%Rose19 people
- 60%Stayed level34 people
- 7%Fell4 people
57 of the 133 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 57 of the 133 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 Berkeley18.2%
- Stanford11.4%
- Carnegie Mellon9.1%
- MIT5.3%
- University of Waterloo4.6%
- Penn3.8%
- Brown3.0%
- UC San Diego3.0%
The 8 most listed schools among the 132 people here with a school on file.
Of the 132 people here with a school on file, 24 list UC Berkeley, 15 list Stanford and 12 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
53%have a public GitHub account on their profile
71 of the 133 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
63% of the people who have worked at Figma and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
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Everyone on the map
- 63%SF Bay Area84 · map 47%
- 32%New York42 · map 33%
- 2%Washington DC3 · map 7%
- 3%Somewhere else4
All 133 people who worked at Figma 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 Figma: 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 Figma, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 133 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Figma: 98 are there now and 35 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Figma is Jane Street (3 people, 8% of recorded departures), followed by OpenAI.
- The most common previous employer before Figma is Meta (17 people), followed by Dropbox and Google.
- The median tenure at Figma is 3y 6m (middle half 1y 10m to 4y 2m).
- Of those who moved on from Figma, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 9% 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 Figma is 87 on the 0 to 99 scale (133 scored).
- The most common title held at Figma is Software Engineer, then Engineering Manager.
- Of the 132 people here with a school on file, 24 list UC Berkeley (18.2%), then Stanford (15). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 63% of the 133 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.
- 53% of the 133 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 57 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 19 rose, 34 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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