After Gusto
- 28%Joined a startup14
- 6%Joined a big company3
- 66%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Gusto most often go to Stripe. Of them, 28% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 10m
Not Gusto's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 113 people on a map of 67,181, No. 206 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1130.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 6154% of the people here
- Moved on
- 5246% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 10mmiddle half 1y 5m to 5y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Stripe (6% of recorded departures).
How long people stay
15%<1y
20%1-2y
22%2-4y
40%4-7y
3%7y+
97 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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0013
<3014
4015
<3016
6<317
4318
7819
17620
21721
171722
4323
17824
12325
6<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 120 joined, 59 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 87 scored99
there now 83 moved on 84. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer43
- Software Engineer Intern20
- Staff Software Engineer16
- Senior Software Engineer15
- Engineering Manager9
- Senior Staff Software Engineer4
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 25%Strong22 people
- 44%Solid38 people
- 31%Emerging or unproven27 people
87 of the 113 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
22 of the 87 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 25%. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few 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 rose26 of 61 classified people
- 43%Rose26 people
- 51%Stayed level31 people
- 7%Fell4 people
61 of the 113 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
- UC Berkeley16.8%
- Carnegie Mellon8.0%
- Stanford5.3%
- UC Santa Cruz5.3%
- UCLA4.4%
- Columbia3.5%
- Georgia Tech3.5%
- City College of San Francisco2.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 113 people here with a school on file.
19 of the 113 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 9 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
54%have a public GitHub account on their profile
61 of the 113 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
58% of the people who have worked at Gusto and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Gusto
Everyone on the map
- 58%SF Bay Area66 · map 41%
- 24%New York27 · map 18%
- 5%Los Angeles6 · map 5%
- 4%Seattle4 · map 5%
- 3%Washington DC3 · map 13%
- 6%Somewhere else7
All 113 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 working at Gusto: 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 Gusto, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 113 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Gusto: 61 are there now, 52 have moved on.
- Most leave for Stripe: 3 people, 6% of recorded departures.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 5 people. Then Google and Meta.
- Median tenure at Gusto: 2y 10m, middle half 1y 5m to 5y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Gusto, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 28% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 6% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 87 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 19 of the 113 people here with one on file (16.8%). Then Carnegie Mellon (9).
- 58% of the 113 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.
- 54% of the 113 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 26 rose, 31 stayed level, 4 fell, out of the 61 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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