After Mastercard
- 17%Joined a startup5
- 24%Joined a big company7
- 59%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Mastercard most often go to Meta. 17% go small. Median stay 2y 9m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Mastercard's headcount: 46 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 212 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 460.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1635% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3065% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 9mmiddle half 1y 3m to 3y 9m
Put Mastercard 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 Applied Predictive Technologies. Most leave for Meta (10% of recorded departures).
3 of 36 recorded arrivals shown, 33 more from 33 other companies3 of 30 recorded departures shown, 27 more to 26 other companies
How long people stay
15%<1y
27%1-2y
36%2-4y
15%4-7y
6%7y+
33 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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1113
0014
3315
2216
1017
4318
10519
3220
9621
6422
6223
2324
2125
0126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 49 joined, 33 left.
Caliber
78mediantop 10%85
0Eng Scorer caliber, 46 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer11
- Software Engineer Intern11
- Software Engineer II7
- Lead Software Engineer4
- Software Engineer4
- Software Engineer I3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 9% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 36%Exceptional, strong or solid16 people
- 64%Emerging or unproven29 people
45 of the 46 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. Fewer than 3 of the 45 people here with a read sit in them, which is too few to print as a count. 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.
42%Titles that rose15 of 36 classified people
- 42%Rose15 people
- 47%Stayed level17 people
- 11%Fell4 people
36 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 36 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.
Where they studied
- Columbia9.1%
- WashU9.1%
- Georgia Tech6.8%
- UIUC6.8%
- University of Maryland6.8%
The 5 most listed schools among the 44 people here with a school on file.
Of the 44 people here with a school on file, 4 list Columbia, 4 list WashU and 3 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
31%have a public GitHub account on their profile
14 of the 45 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
69% of the people who have worked at Mastercard and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Mastercard
Everyone on the map
- 69%New York31 · map 33%
- 20%SF Bay Area9 · map 47%
- 7%Washington DC3 · map 7%
45 of the 46 people who worked at Mastercard list a location, and every share here is over those 45.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Mastercard: 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 Mastercard, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 46 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Mastercard: 16 are there now and 30 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Mastercard is Meta (3 people, 10% of recorded departures).
- The most common previous employer before Mastercard is Applied Predictive Technologies (3 people).
- The median tenure at Mastercard is 2y 9m (middle half 1y 3m to 3y 9m).
- Of those who moved on from Mastercard, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 17% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 24% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Mastercard is 78 on the 0 to 99 scale (46 scored).
- The most common title held at Mastercard is Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 44 people here with a school on file, 4 list Columbia (9.1%), then WashU (4). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 69% of the 45 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 31% of the 45 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 36 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 15 rose, 17 stayed level and 4 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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