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People who leave LinkedIn most often go to Meta, Google and Uber. 7% found something next. 14% go small. Median stay 3y 8m

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not LinkedIn's headcount: 442 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 18 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
4421.7% of everyone on the map
There now
14533% of the people here
Moved on
29767% of the people here
Median tenure
3y 8mmiddle half 1y 7m to 5y 2m

Put LinkedIn 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. Most leave for Meta (12% of recorded departures).

LinkedIn444 in · 316 out
27Amazon15Meta12Google10Microsoft8Oracle7Amazon Web Services6Bloomberg6IBM6YahooMeta3912%Google144%Uber124%OpenAI83%Databricks72%Netflix52%Pinterest52%Robinhood41%Stripe41%
97 of 444 recorded arrivals shown, 347 more from 290 other companies98 of 316 recorded departures shown, 218 more to 177 other companies

After LinkedIn

  • 7%Founded something20
  • 14%Joined a startup42
  • 23%Joined a big company71
  • 56%Elsewhere

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

The LinkedIn mafia

20 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 7% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars are the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders count in the total.

How long people stay

15%<1y
15%1-2y
26%2-4y
34%4-7y
11%7y+
3y 8m median tenuremiddle half 1y 7m to 5y 2m

414 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: 520 joined, 385 left.

Caliber

84mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 442 scored99

there now 83 moved on 84. Current staff and alumni score about the same.

Titles held here

  1. Senior Software Engineer196
  2. Software Engineer185
  3. Software Engineer Intern99
  4. Staff Software Engineer90
  5. Engineering Manager34
  6. Senior Engineering Manager19
  7. Machine Learning Engineer8
  8. Senior Site Reliability Engineer8

8 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 8% of people here.

Behind the median

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

  • 5%Exceptional21 people
  • 29%Strong126 people
  • 50%Solid220 people
  • 16%Emerging70 people
  • 1%Unproven5 people

442 of the 442 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.

Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 147 of the 442 people here with a read sit in them, 33%. 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.

Whether a title rose here

The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.

56%Titles that rose201 of 356 classified people

  • 56%Rose201 people
  • 38%Stayed level134 people
  • 6%Fell21 people

356 of the 442 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 356 of the 442 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.

Where they studied

  1. UC Berkeley20.2%
  2. Stanford6.4%
  3. UCLA5.5%
  4. University of Waterloo5.0%
  5. Columbia3.2%
  6. Carnegie Mellon3.0%
  7. Cornell2.7%
  8. NYU2.7%

The 8 most listed schools among the 440 people here with a school on file.

Of the 440 people here with a school on file, 89 list UC Berkeley, 28 list Stanford and 24 list UCLA. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

one square is one in a hundred
48%have a public GitHub account on their profile

214 of the 442 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

77% of the people who have worked at LinkedIn and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

LinkedIn
Everyone on the map
  • 77%SF Bay Area341 · map 47%
  • 17%New York76 · map 33%
  • 2%Los Angeles10 · map 6%
  • 1%Seattle6 · map 3%
  • 2%Somewhere else9

All 442 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 they worked at LinkedIn: 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

  • 442 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at LinkedIn: 145 are there now and 297 have moved on.
  • The most common next employer after LinkedIn is Meta (39 people, 12% of recorded departures), followed by Google and Uber.
  • The most common previous employer before LinkedIn is Amazon (27 people), followed by Meta and Google.
  • The median tenure at LinkedIn is 3y 8m (middle half 1y 7m to 5y 2m).
  • Of those who moved on from LinkedIn, 7% went on to a founder title, 14% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 23% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at LinkedIn is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (442 scored).
  • The most common title held at LinkedIn is Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
  • Of the 440 people here with a school on file, 89 list UC Berkeley (20.2%), then Stanford (28). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 77% of the 442 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.
  • 48% of the 442 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
  • Of the 356 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 201 rose, 134 stayed level and 21 fell.

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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