After Indeed
- 13%Joined a startup8
- 41%Joined a big company26
- 47%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Indeed most often go to Google and Meta. Of them, 13% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y 8m
Not Indeed's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 96 people on a map of 67,181, No. 244 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 960.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3132% of the people here
- Moved on
- 6568% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 8mmiddle half 2y 5m to 5y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Google (12% of recorded departures).
13 of 93 recorded arrivals shown, 80 more from 75 other companies16 of 68 recorded departures shown, 52 more to 48 other companies
How long people stay
8%<1y
16%1-2y
31%2-4y
35%4-7y
9%7y+
85 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: 103 joined, 74 left.
Caliber
78mediantop 10%86
0Eng Scorer caliber, 46 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer37
- Senior Software Engineer15
- Staff Software Engineer15
- Software Engineer Intern14
- Principal Software Engineer7
- Software Engineer II6
- Data Scientist3
- Research Engineer3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 9% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 9%Strong4 people
- 35%Solid16 people
- 50%Emerging23 people
- 7%Unproven3 people
46 of the 96 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
4 of the 46 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.
42%Titles that rose32 of 76 classified people
- 42%Rose32 people
- 54%Stayed level41 people
- 4%Fell3 people
76 of the 96 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
- Carnegie Mellon8.5%
- Georgia Tech8.5%
- UC Berkeley8.5%
- University of Washington8.5%
- UT Austin8.5%
- Rice5.3%
- RIT5.3%
- Columbia4.3%
The 8 most listed schools among the 94 people here with a school on file.
8 of the 94 people here with a school on file list Carnegie Mellon, 8 list Georgia Tech and 8 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
47%have a public GitHub account on their profile
45 of the 96 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
34% of the people who have worked at Indeed and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Indeed
Everyone on the map
- 34%SF Bay Area33 · map 41%
- 16%Seattle15 · map 5%
- 14%New York13 · map 18%
- 11%Austin11 · map 0.8%
- 5%Los Angeles5 · map 5%
- 3%Washington DC3 · map 13%
- 17%Somewhere else16
All 96 people who worked at Indeed 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 Indeed: 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 Indeed, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 96 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Indeed: 31 are there now, 65 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 8 people, 12% of recorded departures. Then Meta.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 7 people. Then Google and Microsoft.
- Median tenure at Indeed: 3y 8m, middle half 2y 5m to 5y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Indeed, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 13% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 41% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 78 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 46 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: Carnegie Mellon, listed by 8 of the 94 people here with one on file (8.5%). Then Georgia Tech (8).
- 34% of the 96 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.
- 47% of the 96 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 32 rose, 41 stayed level, 3 fell, out of the 76 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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