After Figma
- 14%Joined a startup8
- 18%Joined a big company10
- 68%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Figma most often go to OpenAI, Meta and Jane Street. Of them, 14% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y 2m
Not Figma's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 180 people on a map of 67,181, No. 131 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1800.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 12569% of the people here
- Moved on
- 5531% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 2mmiddle half 1y 6m to 4y 3m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for OpenAI (12% of recorded departures).
57 of 184 recorded arrivals shown, 127 more from 107 other companies16 of 59 recorded departures shown, 43 more to 38 other companies
How long people stay
13%<1y
19%1-2y
34%2-4y
32%4-7y
2%7y+
167 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 190 joined, 65 left.
Caliber
87mediantop 10%96
0Eng Scorer caliber, 141 scored99
there now 87 moved on 90. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer110
- Software Engineer Intern22
- Senior Software Engineer20
- Engineering Manager18
- Staff Software Engineer6
- Senior Staff Software Engineer4
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
- 48%Strong67 people
- 35%Solid50 people
- 6%Emerging or unproven9 people
141 of the 180 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
82 of the 141 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 58%. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
36%Titles that rose29 of 80 classified people
- 36%Rose29 people
- 56%Stayed level45 people
- 8%Fell6 people
80 of the 180 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 Berkeley17.9%
- Stanford11.7%
- Carnegie Mellon10.1%
- MIT7.3%
- Penn4.5%
- University of Waterloo3.9%
- UCLA3.4%
- UC San Diego2.8%
The 8 most listed schools among the 179 people here with a school on file.
32 of the 179 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 21 list Stanford and 18 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
53%have a public GitHub account on their profile
96 of the 180 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
63% of the people who have worked at Figma and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
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Everyone on the map
- 63%SF Bay Area113 · map 41%
- 27%New York48 · map 18%
- 4%Washington DC7 · map 13%
- 2%Los Angeles3 · map 5%
- 2%Seattle3 · map 5%
- 3%Somewhere else6
All 180 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 working at Figma: 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 Figma, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 180 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Figma: 125 are there now, 55 have moved on.
- Most leave for OpenAI: 7 people, 12% of recorded departures. Then Meta and Jane Street.
- Most arrive from Meta: 18 people. Then Google and Stripe.
- Median tenure at Figma: 3y 2m, middle half 1y 6m to 4y 3m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Figma, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 14% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 18% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 87 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 141 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 32 of the 179 people here with one on file (17.9%). Then Stanford (21).
- 63% of the 180 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.
- 53% of the 180 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 29 rose, 45 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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