Zelcastalumni map

People who leave Meta most often go to Google, Instagram and Palantir Technologies. 5% found something next. 17% go small. Median stay 2y 6m

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Meta's headcount: 3,097 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 2 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
3,09711.7% of everyone on the map
There now
1,44747% of the people here
Moved on
1,65053% of the people here
Median tenure
2y 6mmiddle half 1y 4m to 4y 5m

Put Meta 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 Google (6% of recorded departures).

Meta3,129 in · 1,885 out
194Google161Amazon127Microsoft56Amazon Web Services46Apple41Palantir Technologies39Instagram39LinkedIn35BloombergGoogle1176%Instagram704%Palantir Technologies593%Stripe472%OpenAI412%Microsoft402%Uber312%Amazon292%Bloomberg281%
738 of 3,129 recorded arrivals shown, 2,391 more from 1,551 other companies462 of 1,885 recorded departures shown, 1,423 more to 772 other companies

After Meta

  • 5%Founded something80
  • 17%Joined a startup298
  • 20%Joined a big company350
  • 58%Elsewhere

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

The Meta mafia

80 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 5% of those who moved on, half of them within a month of leaving. The bars are the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders count in the total.

How long people stay

14%<1y
23%1-2y
28%2-4y
29%4-7y
6%7y+
2y 6m median tenuremiddle half 1y 4m to 4y 5m

2,644 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: 3,741 joined, 2,324 left.

Caliber

84mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 3,097 scored99

there now 83 moved on 85. The people who left score higher than the people still there.

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer1,548
  2. Software Engineer Intern862
  3. Senior Software Engineer335
  4. Engineering Manager173
  5. Staff Software Engineer127
  6. Machine Learning Engineer93
  7. Data Engineer75
  8. Senior Engineering Manager27

8 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.

  • 5%Exceptional140 people
  • 28%Strong860 people
  • 50%Solid1,550 people
  • 17%Emerging513 people
  • 1%Unproven31 people

3,094 of the 3,097 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.

Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 1,000 of the 3,094 people here with a read sit in them, 32%. 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.

38%Titles that rose762 of 2,008 classified people

  • 38%Rose762 people
  • 60%Stayed level1,199 people
  • 2%Fell47 people

2,008 of the 3,097 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 2,008 of the 3,097 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 Berkeley11.5%
  2. Stanford7.2%
  3. Carnegie Mellon7.0%
  4. UIUC4.8%
  5. University of Waterloo4.2%
  6. MIT3.9%
  7. Georgia Tech3.4%
  8. Cornell3.2%

The 8 most listed schools among the 3,068 people here with a school on file.

Of the 3,068 people here with a school on file, 353 list UC Berkeley, 221 list Stanford and 216 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

one square is one in a hundred
40%have a public GitHub account on their profile

1,252 of the 3,094 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

61% of the people who have worked at Meta and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

Meta
Everyone on the map
  • 61%SF Bay Area1,880 · map 47%
  • 31%New York963 · map 33%
  • 3%Seattle94 · map 3%
  • 2%Los Angeles64 · map 6%
  • 1%Washington DC35 · map 7%
  • 0.2%Boston6 · map 0.4%
  • 0.1%Colorado Springs3 · map 0.1%
  • 0.1%Denver3 · map 0.2%
  • 1%Somewhere else46

3,094 of the 3,097 people who worked at Meta list a location, and every share here is over those 3,094.

Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Meta: 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

  • 3,097 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Meta: 1,447 are there now and 1,650 have moved on.
  • The most common next employer after Meta is Google (117 people, 6% of recorded departures), followed by Instagram and Palantir Technologies.
  • The most common previous employer before Meta is Google (194 people), followed by Amazon and Microsoft.
  • The median tenure at Meta is 2y 6m (middle half 1y 4m to 4y 5m).
  • Of those who moved on from Meta, 5% went on to a founder title, 17% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 20% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Meta is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (3,097 scored).
  • The most common title held at Meta is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
  • Of the 3,068 people here with a school on file, 353 list UC Berkeley (11.5%), then Stanford (221). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 61% of the 3,094 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.
  • 40% of the 3,094 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
  • Of the 2,008 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 762 rose, 1,199 stayed level and 47 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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