After GitHub
- 36%Joined a startup8
- 64%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave GitHub most often go to a long tail of companies. 36% go small. Median stay 3y 8m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not GitHub's headcount: 46 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 210 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 460.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 2146% of the people here
- Moved on
- 2554% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 8mmiddle half 1y 9m to 5y
Put GitHub 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 Microsoft.
7 of 42 recorded arrivals shown, 35 more from 35 other companies0 of 22 recorded departures shown, 22 more to 21 other companies
How long people stay
14%<1y
16%1-2y
23%2-4y
42%4-7y
5%7y+
43 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
0012
1013
0114
0015
3116
5317
2018
3219
11320
11321
3422
1123
3424
4325
2326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 49 joined, 28 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 46 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer13
- Software Engineer13
- Software Engineer III6
- Staff Software Engineer4
- Application Engineering Intern3
- Software Engineer II3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 2% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 20%Exceptional or strong9 people
- 39%Solid18 people
- 41%Emerging19 people
46 of the 46 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 9 of the 46 people here with a read sit in them, 20%. 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.
46%Titles that rose11 of 24 classified people
- 46%Rose11 people
- 54%Stayed level13 people
24 of the 46 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 24 of the 46 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
- Georgia Tech6.5%
The one school among the 46 people here with a school on file.
Of the 46 people here with a school on file, 3 list Georgia Tech.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
61%have a public GitHub account on their profile
28 of the 46 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
37% of the people who have worked at GitHub and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
GitHub
Everyone on the map
- 37%SF Bay Area17 · map 47%
- 35%New York16 · map 33%
- 11%Los Angeles5 · map 6%
- 9%Seattle4 · map 3%
- 9%Somewhere else4
All 46 people who worked at GitHub 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 GitHub: 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 GitHub, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 46 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at GitHub: 21 are there now and 25 have moved on.
- The most common previous employer before GitHub is Microsoft (4 people), followed by Semmle.
- The median tenure at GitHub is 3y 8m (middle half 1y 9m to 5y).
- Of those who moved on from GitHub, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 36% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and fewer than 3 joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at GitHub is 82 on the 0 to 99 scale (46 scored).
- The most common title held at GitHub is Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 46 people here with a school on file, 3 list Georgia Tech (6.5%). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 37% of the 46 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.
- 61% of the 46 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
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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