After Foursquare
- 13%Founded something4
- 27%Joined a startup8
- 17%Joined a big company5
- 43%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Foursquare most often go to Medallion. Of them, 13% found something next and 27% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 1m
Not Foursquare's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 34 people on a map of 67,181, No. 725 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 340.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 412% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3088% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 1mmiddle half 1y to 3y
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Factual. Most leave for Medallion (10% of recorded departures).
17%6FactualMedallion310%
6 of 36 recorded arrivals shown, 30 more from 27 other companies3 of 31 recorded departures shown, 28 more to 27 other companies
How long people stay
14%<1y
31%1-2y
31%2-4y
17%4-7y
7%7y+
29 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: 36 joined, 34 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (25).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer11
- Software Engineer Intern7
- Engineering Manager3
- Senior Software Engineer3
- Staff Software Engineer3
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 3% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
63%Titles that rose17 of 27 classified people
- 63%Rose17 people
- 37%Stayed level or fell10 people
27 of the 34 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. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- Carnegie Mellon9.4%
- UCLA9.4%
The 2 most listed schools among the 32 people here with a school on file.
3 of the 32 people here with a school on file list Carnegie Mellon and 3 list UCLA. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
59%have a public GitHub account on their profile
20 of the 34 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
44% of the people who have worked at Foursquare and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
Foursquare
Everyone on the map
- 44%New York15 · map 18%
- 35%SF Bay Area12 · map 41%
- 15%Los Angeles5 · map 5%
All 34 people who worked at Foursquare 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 Foursquare: 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 Foursquare, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 34 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Foursquare: 4 are there now, 30 have moved on.
- Most leave for Medallion: 3 people, 10% of recorded departures.
- Most arrive from Factual: 6 people.
- Median tenure at Foursquare: 2y 1m, middle half 1y to 3y.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Foursquare, 13% went to a founder title next, 27% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 17% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Carnegie Mellon, listed by 3 of the 32 people here with one on file (9.4%). Then UCLA (3).
- 44% of the 34 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.
- 59% of the 34 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
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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