Zelcastalumni map

People who leave Lyft most often go to Meta, Stripe and Woven by Toyota. 5% found something next. 21% go small. Median stay 2y 5m

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Lyft's headcount: 204 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 41 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
2040.8% of everyone on the map
There now
3115% of the people here
Moved on
17385% of the people here
Median tenure
2y 5mmiddle half 1y 4m to 4y

Put Lyft 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 Google. Most leave for Meta (7% of recorded departures).

Lyft212 in · 183 out
13Google11Microsoft9Amazon8Meta8Salesforce3Amazon Web ServicesMeta137%Stripe84%Woven by Toyota53%Amazon42%Cruise32%Databricks32%Google32%Pinterest32%Scale AI32%
52 of 212 recorded arrivals shown, 160 more from 140 other companies45 of 183 recorded departures shown, 138 more to 113 other companies

After Lyft

  • 5%Founded something9
  • 21%Joined a startup35
  • 19%Joined a big company32
  • 55%Elsewhere

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

The Lyft mafia

9 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 5% 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
28%1-2y
31%2-4y
20%4-7y
5%7y+
2y 5m median tenuremiddle half 1y 4m to 4y

175 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: 237 joined, 206 left.

Caliber

84mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 204 scored99

there now 81 moved on 85. The people who left score higher than the people still there.

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer85
  2. Software Engineer Intern56
  3. Senior Software Engineer33
  4. Engineering Manager20
  5. Staff Software Engineer15
  6. Software Engineer II6
  7. Senior Engineering Manager5
  8. Staff Engineer5

8 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 3% of people here.

Behind the median

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

  • 2%Exceptional4 people
  • 32%Strong66 people
  • 46%Solid94 people
  • 20%Emerging or unproven40 people

204 of the 204 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.

Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 70 of the 204 people here with a read sit in them, 34%. 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.

41%Titles that rose70 of 169 classified people

  • 41%Rose70 people
  • 59%Stayed level or fell99 people

169 of the 204 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 169 of the 204 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

  1. UC Berkeley11.8%
  2. Stanford7.4%
  3. University of Waterloo4.9%
  4. Carnegie Mellon4.4%
  5. UIUC4.4%
  6. Cornell3.9%
  7. Georgia Tech3.9%
  8. UCLA3.9%

The 8 most listed schools among the 204 people here with a school on file.

Of the 204 people here with a school on file, 24 list UC Berkeley, 15 list Stanford and 10 list University of Waterloo. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

one square is one in a hundred
54%have a public GitHub account on their profile

110 of the 204 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

63% of the people who have worked at Lyft and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

Lyft
Everyone on the map
  • 63%SF Bay Area129 · map 47%
  • 27%New York56 · map 33%
  • 3%Los Angeles7 · map 6%
  • 3%Seattle7 · map 3%
  • 2%Somewhere else5

All 204 people who worked at Lyft 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 Lyft: 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

  • 204 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Lyft: 31 are there now and 173 have moved on.
  • The most common next employer after Lyft is Meta (13 people, 7% of recorded departures), followed by Stripe and Woven by Toyota.
  • The most common previous employer before Lyft is Google (13 people), followed by Microsoft and Amazon.
  • The median tenure at Lyft is 2y 5m (middle half 1y 4m to 4y).
  • Of those who moved on from Lyft, 5% went on to a founder title, 21% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 19% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Lyft is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (204 scored).
  • The most common title held at Lyft is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
  • Of the 204 people here with a school on file, 24 list UC Berkeley (11.8%), then Stanford (15). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 63% of the 204 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.
  • 54% of the 204 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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