Zelcastalumni map

People who leave Hive most often go to a long tail of companies. 26% go small. Median stay 1y 9m

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Hive's headcount: 38 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 258 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
380.1% of everyone on the map
There now
411% of the people here
Moved on
3489% of the people here
Median tenure
1y 9mmiddle half 1y 2m to 2y 7m

Put Hive 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.

Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Hive yet.

After Hive

  • 26%Joined a startup9
  • 9%Joined a big company3
  • 65%Elsewhere

Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.

How long people stay

11%<1y
50%1-2y
34%2-4y
3%4-7y
3%7y+
1y 9m median tenuremiddle half 1y 2m to 2y 7m

38 stays with both a start and an end on the record.

Who comes and goes, by year

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joined left2026 is a partial year

2012 to 2026: 39 joined, 35 left.

Caliber

83mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 38 scored99

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer12
  2. Software Engineer II6
  3. Machine Learning Engineer5
  4. Senior Software Engineer5
  5. Engineering Manager3
  6. Software Engineer I3

6 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 5% of people here.

Behind the median

Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.

  • 8%Exceptional3 people
  • 13%Strong5 people
  • 39%Solid15 people
  • 39%Emerging or unproven15 people

38 of the 38 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.

Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 8 of the 38 people here with a read sit in them, 21%. 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.

21%Titles that rose7 of 34 classified people

  • 21%Rose7 people
  • 79%Stayed level or fell27 people

34 of the 38 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 34 of the 38 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

  1. UC Berkeley15.8%
  2. Stanford7.9%
  3. UC San Diego7.9%
  4. University of Waterloo7.9%

The 4 most listed schools among the 38 people here with a school on file.

Of the 38 people here with a school on file, 6 list UC Berkeley, 3 list Stanford and 3 list UC San Diego. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

one square is one in a hundred
26%have a public GitHub account on their profile

10 of the 38 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

74% of the people who have worked at Hive and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

Hive
Everyone on the map
  • 74%SF Bay Area28 · map 47%
  • 21%New York8 · map 33%

All 38 people who worked at Hive 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 Hive: 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.

Key facts

  • 38 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Hive: 4 are there now and 34 have moved on.
  • The median tenure at Hive is 1y 9m (middle half 1y 2m to 2y 7m).
  • Of those who moved on from Hive, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 26% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 9% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Hive is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (38 scored).
  • The most common title held at Hive is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer II.
  • Of the 38 people here with a school on file, 6 list UC Berkeley (15.8%), then Stanford (3). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 74% of the 38 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.
  • 26% of the 38 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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