After Groupon
- 34%Joined a startup14
- 12%Joined a big company5
- 54%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Groupon most often go to Google. 34% go small. Median stay 1y 9m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Groupon's headcount: 43 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 227 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 430.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 00% of the people here
- Moved on
- 43100% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 9mmiddle half 1y 3m to 3y
Put Groupon 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 leave for Google (12% of recorded departures).
30 recorded arrivals from 27 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 30 recorded arrivals shown, 30 more from 27 other companies5 of 41 recorded departures shown, 36 more to 31 other companies
How long people stay
19%<1y
41%1-2y
22%2-4y
15%4-7y
4%7y+
27 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
5612
6213
71114
5215
3716
3517
6318
3219
0520
0221
0022
0023
0024
0025
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 38 joined, 45 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 43 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern12
- Software Engineer7
- Member of Technical Staff6
- Senior Software Engineer5
- Senior Engineering Manager3
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 21% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 7%Exceptional3 people
- 35%Strong15 people
- 37%Solid16 people
- 21%Emerging or unproven9 people
43 of the 43 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 18 of the 43 people here with a read sit in them, 42%. 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.
43%Titles that rose15 of 35 classified people
- 43%Rose15 people
- 49%Stayed level17 people
- 9%Fell3 people
35 of the 43 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 35 of the 43 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
- MIT11.6%
- Northwestern11.6%
- Stanford11.6%
- UC Berkeley11.6%
- Carnegie Mellon9.3%
The 5 most listed schools among the 43 people here with a school on file.
Of the 43 people here with a school on file, 5 list MIT, 5 list Northwestern and 5 list Stanford. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
58%have a public GitHub account on their profile
25 of the 43 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
67% of the people who have worked at Groupon and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Groupon
Everyone on the map
- 67%SF Bay Area29 · map 47%
- 14%New York6 · map 33%
- 9%Los Angeles4 · map 6%
- 9%Somewhere else4
All 43 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 they worked at Groupon: 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 Groupon, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 43 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Groupon: 0 are there now and 43 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Groupon is Google (5 people, 12% of recorded departures).
- The median tenure at Groupon is 1y 9m (middle half 1y 3m to 3y).
- Of those who moved on from Groupon, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 34% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 12% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Groupon is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (43 scored).
- The most common title held at Groupon is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 43 people here with a school on file, 5 list MIT (11.6%), then Northwestern (5). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 67% of the 43 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.
- 58% of the 43 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 35 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 15 rose, 17 stayed level and 3 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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