After Handshake
- 100%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Handshake most often go to a long tail of companies. Median stay 11m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Handshake's headcount: 30 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 321 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 300.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1447% of the people here
- Moved on
- 1653% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 11mmiddle half 5m to 1y 9m
Put Handshake 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 Palantir Technologies.
16 recorded departures to 16 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them
3Palantir Technologies3 of 22 recorded arrivals shown, 19 more from 18 other companies0 of 16 recorded departures shown, 16 more to 16 other companies
How long people stay
56%<1y
19%1-2y
22%2-4y
4%4-7y
0%7y+
27 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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0013
0014
2115
1016
1217
0018
2219
3120
1121
3422
2223
1024
10325
5126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 31 joined, 17 left.
Caliber
81mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 30 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer7
1 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 3% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 17%Exceptional or strong5 people
- 37%Solid11 people
- 37%Emerging11 people
- 10%Unproven3 people
30 of the 30 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 5 of the 30 people here with a read sit in them, 17%. 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.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley13.3%
- Stanford10.0%
- UIUC10.0%
The 3 most listed schools among the 30 people here with a school on file.
Of the 30 people here with a school on file, 4 list UC Berkeley, 3 list Stanford and 3 list UIUC. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
33%have a public GitHub account on their profile
10 of the 30 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
47% of the people who have worked at Handshake and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Handshake
Everyone on the map
- 47%SF Bay Area14 · map 47%
- 30%New York9 · map 33%
- 10%Los Angeles3 · map 6%
- 13%Somewhere else4
All 30 people who worked at Handshake 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 Handshake: 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 Handshake, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 30 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Handshake: 14 are there now and 16 have moved on.
- The most common previous employer before Handshake is Palantir Technologies (3 people).
- The median tenure at Handshake is 11m (middle half 5m to 1y 9m).
- Of those who moved on from Handshake, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, fewer than 3 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 Handshake is 81 on the 0 to 99 scale (30 scored).
- The most common title held at Handshake is Software Engineer.
- Of the 30 people here with a school on file, 4 list UC Berkeley (13.3%), then Stanford (3). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 47% of the 30 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.
- 33% of the 30 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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