After Motive
- 27%Joined a big company7
- 73%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Motive most often go to Meta. The median tenure is 1y 3m
Not Motive's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 35 people on a map of 67,181, No. 699 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 350.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 823% of the people here
- Moved on
- 2777% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 3mmiddle half 10m to 2y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Meta (11% of recorded departures).
33 recorded arrivals from 30 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 33 recorded arrivals shown, 33 more from 30 other companies3 of 28 recorded departures shown, 25 more to 22 other companies
How long people stay
33%<1y
40%1-2y
13%2-4y
10%4-7y
3%7y+
30 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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3<318
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2015 to 2026: 37 joined, 29 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (26).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer7
- Senior Software Engineer4
- Software Engineer Intern4
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 6% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
26%Titles that rose7 of 27 classified people
- 26%Rose7 people
- 59%Stayed level16 people
- 15%Fell4 people
27 of the 35 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
- University of Waterloo14.3%
- UC Berkeley8.6%
- UCLA8.6%
The 3 most listed schools among the 35 people here with a school on file.
5 of the 35 people here with a school on file list University of Waterloo, 3 list UC Berkeley and 3 list UCLA. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
29%have a public GitHub account on their profile
10 of the 35 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
66% of the people who have worked at Motive and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Motive
Everyone on the map
- 66%SF Bay Area23 · map 41%
- 23%New York8 · map 18%
- 11%Somewhere else4
All 35 people who worked at Motive 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 working at Motive: 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 Motive, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 35 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Motive: 8 are there now, 27 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 3 people, 11% of recorded departures.
- Median tenure at Motive: 1y 3m, middle half 10m to 2y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Motive, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, fewer than 3 joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 27% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: University of Waterloo, listed by 5 of the 35 people here with one on file (14.3%). Then UC Berkeley (3).
- 66% of the 35 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.
- 29% of the 35 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 7 rose, 16 stayed level, 4 fell, out of the 27 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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