After LinkedIn
- 4%Founded something28
- 13%Joined a startup86
- 40%Joined a big company265
- 43%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave LinkedIn most often go to Meta, Google and Uber. Of them, 4% found something next and 13% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y 2m
Not LinkedIn's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 1,091 people on a map of 67,181, No. 18 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1,0911.6% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 43540% of the people here
- Moved on
- 65660% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 2mmiddle half 1y 6m to 4y 11m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Meta (14% of recorded departures).
294 of 1,076 recorded arrivals shown, 782 more from 569 other companies264 of 696 recorded departures shown, 432 more to 289 other companies
The LinkedIn mafia
28 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 4% of those who moved on, half of them within a month of leaving. The bars cover the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
14%<1y
18%1-2y
25%2-4y
32%4-7y
11%7y+
1,030 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
261312
421713
573514
784715
765316
675017
1067018
1516319
815920
1599921
1628322
537423
898424
828425
392926
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 1,268 joined, 860 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 546 scored99
there now 83 moved on 84. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer467
- Software Engineer419
- Staff Software Engineer232
- Software Engineer Intern197
- Engineering Manager44
- Senior Staff Software Engineer33
- Machine Learning Engineer25
- Senior Engineering Manager24
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 7% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 5%Exceptional26 people
- 24%Strong131 people
- 44%Solid242 people
- 24%Emerging130 people
- 3%Unproven17 people
546 of the 1,091 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
157 of the 546 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 29%. 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.
57%Titles that rose467 of 814 classified people
- 57%Rose467 people
- 35%Stayed level283 people
- 8%Fell64 people
814 of the 1,091 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 Berkeley12.8%
- Carnegie Mellon7.4%
- Stanford7.2%
- Georgia Tech6.0%
- UCLA4.6%
- USC4.0%
- University of Waterloo3.0%
- Cornell2.9%
The 8 most listed schools among the 1,089 people here with a school on file.
139 of the 1,089 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 81 list Carnegie Mellon and 78 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
46%have a public GitHub account on their profile
497 of the 1,091 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
79% of the people who have worked at LinkedIn and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
LinkedIn
Everyone on the map
- 79%SF Bay Area859 · map 41%
- 11%New York115 · map 18%
- 3%Seattle36 · map 5%
- 2%Los Angeles18 · map 5%
- 1%Washington DC11 · map 13%
- 0.4%Austin4 · map 0.8%
- 0.3%Chicago3 · map 0.6%
- 4%Somewhere else45
All 1,091 people who worked at LinkedIn 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 LinkedIn: 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 LinkedIn, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 1,091 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at LinkedIn: 435 are there now, 656 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 100 people, 14% of recorded departures. Then Google and Uber.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 84 people. Then Meta and Google.
- Median tenure at LinkedIn: 3y 2m, middle half 1y 6m to 4y 11m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after LinkedIn, 4% went to a founder title next, 13% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 40% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 546 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 139 of the 1,089 people here with one on file (12.8%). Then Carnegie Mellon (81).
- 79% of the 1,091 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.
- 46% of the 1,091 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 467 rose, 283 stayed level, 64 fell, out of the 814 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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