After Groupon
- 21%Joined a startup19
- 32%Joined a big company29
- 47%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Groupon most often go to Google, Meta and Uber. Of them, 21% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 11m
Not Groupon's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 92 people on a map of 67,181, No. 257 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 920.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 00% of the people here
- Moved on
- 92100% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 11mmiddle half 1y 5m to 3y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Microsoft. Most leave for Google (9% of recorded departures).
11 of 75 recorded arrivals shown, 64 more from 59 other companies29 of 92 recorded departures shown, 63 more to 55 other companies
How long people stay
13%<1y
38%1-2y
32%2-4y
11%4-7y
6%7y+
71 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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71316
81017
91318
5819
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 87 joined, 97 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 49 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer21
- Software Engineer Intern17
- Senior Software Engineer9
- Member of Technical Staff8
- Software Development Engineer8
- Engineering Manager4
- Senior Engineering Manager4
- Data Scientist3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 15% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 6%Exceptional3 people
- 31%Strong15 people
- 33%Solid16 people
- 24%Emerging12 people
- 6%Unproven3 people
49 of the 92 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
18 of the 49 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 37%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
37%Titles that rose30 of 82 classified people
- 37%Rose30 people
- 56%Stayed level46 people
- 7%Fell6 people
82 of the 92 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
- Northwestern8.8%
- Carnegie Mellon7.7%
- Stanford6.6%
- UC Berkeley6.6%
- UIUC6.6%
- MIT5.5%
- UC San Diego4.4%
- University of Washington4.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 91 people here with a school on file.
8 of the 91 people here with a school on file list Northwestern, 7 list Carnegie Mellon and 6 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
51%have a public GitHub account on their profile
47 of the 92 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
64% of the people who have worked at Groupon and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Groupon
Everyone on the map
- 64%SF Bay Area59 · map 41%
- 11%New York10 · map 18%
- 10%Seattle9 · map 5%
- 4%Los Angeles4 · map 5%
- 3%Chicago3 · map 0.6%
- 3%Washington DC3 · map 13%
- 4%Somewhere else4
All 92 people who worked at Groupon 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 Groupon: 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 Groupon, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 92 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Groupon: 0 are there now, 92 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 8 people, 9% of recorded departures. Then Meta and Uber.
- Most arrive from Microsoft: 7 people. Then Amazon.
- Median tenure at Groupon: 1y 11m, middle half 1y 5m to 3y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Groupon, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 21% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 32% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 49 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Northwestern, listed by 8 of the 91 people here with one on file (8.8%). Then Carnegie Mellon (7).
- 64% of the 92 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.
- 51% of the 92 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 30 rose, 46 stayed level, 6 fell, out of the 82 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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