After Meta
- 4%Founded something156
- 18%Joined a startup708
- 29%Joined a big company1,136
- 48%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Meta most often go to Google, Instagram and Microsoft. Of them, 4% found something next and 18% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 4m
Not Meta's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 7,741 people on a map of 67,181, No. 2 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 7,74111.5% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 4,04752% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3,69448% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 4mmiddle half 1y 3m to 4y 5m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Google (9% of recorded departures).
1,894 of 7,595 recorded arrivals shown, 5,701 more from 3,020 other companies1,046 of 4,181 recorded departures shown, 3,135 more to 1,409 other companies
The Meta mafia
156 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
15%<1y
26%1-2y
25%2-4y
25%4-7y
8%7y+
6,899 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
974512
1216713
1429614
24816315
30517816
48524617
63535418
74144719
97045420
1,06866721
1,5301,09622
34454123
1,08626524
1,21444325
26119826
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 9,247 joined, 5,260 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 3,866 scored99
there now 83 moved on 84. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer3,564
- Software Engineer Intern1,662
- Senior Software Engineer891
- Machine Learning Engineer440
- Staff Software Engineer430
- Research Scientist260
- Engineering Manager250
- Data Engineer161
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.
- 4%Exceptional154 people
- 24%Strong932 people
- 44%Solid1,713 people
- 25%Emerging954 people
- 3%Unproven110 people
3,863 of the 7,741 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
1,086 of the 3,863 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 28%. 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.
45%Titles that rose1,994 of 4,453 classified people
- 45%Rose1,994 people
- 52%Stayed level2,337 people
- 3%Fell122 people
4,453 of the 7,741 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 Berkeley9.1%
- Carnegie Mellon8.4%
- Stanford8.2%
- Georgia Tech5.5%
- MIT4.1%
- UIUC3.9%
- USC3.0%
- Cornell3.0%
The 8 most listed schools among the 7,702 people here with a school on file.
697 of the 7,702 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 644 list Carnegie Mellon and 632 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
38%have a public GitHub account on their profile
2,908 of the 7,738 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
65% of the people who have worked at Meta and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Meta
Everyone on the map
- 65%SF Bay Area5,037 · map 41%
- 19%New York1,438 · map 18%
- 7%Seattle539 · map 5%
- 2%Washington DC189 · map 13%
- 2%Los Angeles119 · map 5%
- 0.7%Boston53 · map 2%
- 0.3%Austin26 · map 0.8%
- 0.3%Atlanta24 · map 1%
- 4%Somewhere else313
7,738 of the 7,741 people who worked at Meta list a location, and every share here is over those 7,738.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Meta: 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 Meta, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 7,741 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Meta: 4,047 are there now, 3,694 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 387 people, 9% of recorded departures. Then Instagram and Microsoft.
- Most arrive from Google: 535 people. Then Amazon and Microsoft.
- Median tenure at Meta: 2y 4m, middle half 1y 3m to 4y 5m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Meta, 4% went to a founder title next, 18% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 29% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 3,866 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 697 of the 7,702 people here with one on file (9.0%). Then Carnegie Mellon (644).
- 65% of the 7,738 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.
- 38% of the 7,738 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 1,994 rose, 2,337 stayed level, 122 fell, out of the 4,453 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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