After Headstarter
- 10%Founded something4
- 37%Joined a startup15
- 15%Joined a big company6
- 39%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Headstarter most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 10% found something next and 37% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 5m
Not Headstarter's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 51 people on a map of 67,181, No. 462 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 510.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 510% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4690% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 5mmiddle half 2m to 7m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Headstarter yet.
How long people stay
82%<1y
18%1-2y
0%2-4y
0%4-7y
0%7y+
22 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
3<321
4<322
0<323
413224
4825
0<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2021 to 2026: 52 joined, 47 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (18).
Titles held here
- Software Engineering Fellow19
- Software Engineer Fellow9
- Software Engineer7
- Software Engineer Resident4
- Software Engineering Resident3
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 18% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
12%Titles that rose4 of 34 classified people
- 12%Rose4 people
- 56%Stayed level19 people
- 32%Fell11 people
34 of the 51 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
- Georgia Tech17.7%
- Stanford7.8%
- UC Berkeley7.8%
- UIUC7.8%
- University of Maryland7.8%
The 5 most listed schools among the 51 people here with a school on file.
9 of the 51 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 4 list Stanford and 4 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
12%have a public GitHub account on their profile
6 of the 51 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
31% of the people who have worked at Headstarter and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
Headstarter
Everyone on the map
- 31%Washington DC16 · map 13%
- 20%SF Bay Area10 · map 41%
- 18%New York9 · map 18%
- 31%Somewhere else16
All 51 people who worked at Headstarter 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 Headstarter: 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 Headstarter, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 51 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Headstarter: 5 are there now, 46 have moved on.
- Median tenure at Headstarter: 5m, middle half 2m to 7m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Headstarter, 10% went to a founder title next, 37% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 15% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineering Fellow, then Software Engineer Fellow.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 9 of the 51 people here with one on file (17.6%). Then Stanford (4).
- 31% of the 51 people here who list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 12% of the 51 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 4 rose, 19 stayed level, 11 fell, out of the 34 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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