After Instacart
- 13%Founded something3
- 17%Joined a startup4
- 22%Joined a big company5
- 48%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Instacart most often go to a long tail of companies. 13% found something next. 17% go small. Median stay 2y 10m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Instacart's headcount: 46 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 211 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 460.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 2350% of the people here
- Moved on
- 2350% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 10mmiddle half 1y 3m to 5y
Put Instacart 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 Amazon.
How long people stay
13%<1y
23%1-2y
19%2-4y
38%4-7y
6%7y+
47 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
0012
0013
2014
1015
1116
1117
4318
3119
5020
21121
4622
0723
0324
4125
1026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 47 joined, 24 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 46 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer17
- Software Engineer12
- Senior Software Engineer II6
- Staff Software Engineer3
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 2% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 9%Exceptional4 people
- 22%Strong10 people
- 52%Solid24 people
- 17%Emerging or unproven8 people
46 of the 46 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 14 of the 46 people here with a read sit in them, 30%. 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.
54%Titles that rose19 of 35 classified people
- 54%Rose19 people
- 46%Stayed level or fell16 people
35 of the 46 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 35 of the 46 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
- UC Berkeley17.8%
- Cornell11.1%
- Georgia Tech8.9%
- Stanford8.9%
The 4 most listed schools among the 45 people here with a school on file.
Of the 45 people here with a school on file, 8 list UC Berkeley, 5 list Cornell and 4 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
52%have a public GitHub account on their profile
24 of the 46 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
76% of the people who have worked at Instacart and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Instacart
Everyone on the map
- 76%SF Bay Area35 · map 47%
- 22%New York10 · map 33%
All 46 people who worked at Instacart 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 Instacart: 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 Instacart, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 46 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Instacart: 23 are there now and 23 have moved on.
- The most common previous employer before Instacart is Amazon (3 people), followed by Google.
- The median tenure at Instacart is 2y 10m (middle half 1y 3m to 5y).
- Of those who moved on from Instacart, 13% went on to a founder title, 17% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 22% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Instacart is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (46 scored).
- The most common title held at Instacart is Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 45 people here with a school on file, 8 list UC Berkeley (17.8%), then Cornell (5). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 76% of the 46 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.
- 52% of the 46 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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