After Gusto
- 29%Joined a startup10
- 71%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Gusto most often go to Stripe. 29% go small. Median stay 3y 2m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Gusto's headcount: 81 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 119 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 810.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 4657% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3543% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 2mmiddle half 1y 5m to 5y 2m
Put Gusto 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 Google. Most leave for Stripe (9% of recorded departures).
How long people stay
18%<1y
17%1-2y
17%2-4y
44%4-7y
4%7y+
71 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1012
0013
2014
2015
1016
5117
3318
5519
14620
18721
141222
2223
7224
6125
6126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 86 joined, 40 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 81 scored99
there now 83 moved on 85. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer32
- Software Engineer Intern14
- Staff Software Engineer11
- Senior Software Engineer10
- Engineering Manager6
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 26%Strong21 people
- 43%Solid35 people
- 31%Emerging or unproven25 people
81 of the 81 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 21 of the 81 people here with a read sit in them, 26%. 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.
40%Titles that rose17 of 42 classified people
- 40%Rose17 people
- 60%Stayed level or fell25 people
42 of the 81 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 42 of the 81 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. A direction 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.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley19.8%
- Stanford6.2%
- UC Santa Cruz6.2%
- UCLA6.2%
- Carnegie Mellon4.9%
- City College of San Francisco3.7%
- Columbia3.7%
- Cornell3.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 81 people here with a school on file.
Of the 81 people here with a school on file, 16 list UC Berkeley, 5 list Stanford and 5 list UC Santa Cruz. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
54%have a public GitHub account on their profile
44 of the 81 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
60% of the people who have worked at Gusto and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Gusto
Everyone on the map
- 60%SF Bay Area49 · map 47%
- 28%New York23 · map 33%
- 7%Los Angeles6 · map 6%
- 4%Somewhere else3
All 81 people who worked at Gusto 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 Gusto: 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 Gusto, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 81 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Gusto: 46 are there now and 35 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Gusto is Stripe (3 people, 9% of recorded departures).
- The most common previous employer before Gusto is Google (4 people), followed by Amazon and Meta.
- The median tenure at Gusto is 3y 2m (middle half 1y 5m to 5y 2m).
- Of those who moved on from Gusto, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 29% 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 Gusto is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (81 scored).
- The most common title held at Gusto is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 81 people here with a school on file, 16 list UC Berkeley (19.8%), then Stanford (5). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 60% of the 81 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.
- 54% of the 81 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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