After Instacart
- 12%Founded something8
- 17%Joined a startup11
- 29%Joined a big company19
- 42%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Instacart most often go to Google, Meta and OpenAI. Of them, 12% found something next and 17% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y 2m
Not Instacart's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 116 people on a map of 67,181, No. 201 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1160.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 4942% of the people here
- Moved on
- 6758% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 2mmiddle half 1y 6m to 5y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Google (6% of recorded departures).
39 of 112 recorded arrivals shown, 73 more from 68 other companies17 of 66 recorded departures shown, 49 more to 44 other companies
The Instacart mafia
8 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 12% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars cover the ’18 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
14%<1y
17%1-2y
26%2-4y
38%4-7y
5%7y+
116 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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5<319
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2014 to 2026: 117 joined, 69 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 53 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer36
- Software Engineer20
- Staff Software Engineer12
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer9
- Senior Software Engineer II9
- Machine Learning Engineer6
- Senior Engineering Manager4
- Software Engineer II4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 9%Exceptional5 people
- 23%Strong12 people
- 49%Solid26 people
- 13%Emerging7 people
- 6%Unproven3 people
53 of the 116 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
17 of the 53 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 32%. 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.
48%Titles that rose39 of 81 classified people
- 48%Rose39 people
- 40%Stayed level32 people
- 12%Fell10 people
81 of the 116 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
- UC Berkeley9.6%
- Georgia Tech7.8%
- Stanford7.0%
- Cornell5.2%
- Penn4.4%
- USC4.4%
- Carnegie Mellon3.5%
- Columbia3.5%
The 8 most listed schools among the 115 people here with a school on file.
11 of the 115 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 9 list Georgia Tech and 8 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
50%have a public GitHub account on their profile
58 of the 116 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
73% of the people who have worked at Instacart and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Instacart
Everyone on the map
- 73%SF Bay Area85 · map 41%
- 14%New York16 · map 18%
- 3%Washington DC4 · map 13%
- 9%Somewhere else11
All 116 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 working at Instacart: 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 Instacart, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 116 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Instacart: 49 are there now, 67 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 4 people, 6% of recorded departures. Then Meta and OpenAI.
- Most arrive from Google: 12 people. Then Meta and LinkedIn.
- Median tenure at Instacart: 3y 2m, middle half 1y 6m to 5y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Instacart, 12% went to a founder title next, 17% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 29% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 53 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 11 of the 115 people here with one on file (9.6%). Then Georgia Tech (9).
- 73% of the 116 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.
- 50% of the 116 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 39 rose, 32 stayed level, 10 fell, out of the 81 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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