After Headway
- 100%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Headway most often go to a long tail of companies. The median tenure is 1y 7m
Not Headway's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 44 people on a map of 67,181, No. 551 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 440.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3375% of the people here
- Moved on
- 1125% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 7mmiddle half 1y 2m to 2y 8m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Headway yet.
How long people stay
12%<1y
49%1-2y
27%2-4y
12%4-7y
0%7y+
41 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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<3020
6<321
3<322
7623
8024
16<325
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2019 to 2026: 43 joined, 11 left.
Caliber
80mediantop 10%86
0Eng Scorer caliber, 33 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer17
- Senior Software Engineer12
- Engineering Manager6
- Staff Software Engineer5
- Software Engineer Intern3
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 9%Strong3 people
- 45%Solid15 people
- 36%Emerging12 people
- 9%Unproven3 people
33 of the 44 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
3 of the 33 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 9%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
55%Titles that rose11 of 20 classified people
- 55%Rose11 people
- 45%Stayed level or fell9 people
20 of the 44 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. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- Stanford11.4%
- Rutgers6.8%
- UC Berkeley6.8%
The 3 most listed schools among the 44 people here with a school on file.
5 of the 44 people here with a school on file list Stanford, 3 list Rutgers and 3 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
39%have a public GitHub account on their profile
17 of the 44 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
66% of the people who have worked at Headway and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
Headway
Everyone on the map
- 66%New York29 · map 18%
- 18%SF Bay Area8 · map 41%
- 7%Washington DC3 · map 13%
- 9%Somewhere else4
All 44 people who worked at Headway 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 Headway: 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 Headway, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 44 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Headway: 33 are there now, 11 have moved on.
- Median tenure at Headway: 1y 7m, middle half 1y 2m to 2y 8m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Headway, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, fewer than 3 joined a company of 200 or fewer, and fewer than 3 joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 80 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 33 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: Stanford, listed by 5 of the 44 people here with one on file (11.4%). Then Rutgers (3).
- 66% of the 44 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 18% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 39% of the 44 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
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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