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People who leave Motive most often go to a long tail of companies

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Motive's headcount: 23 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 425 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
230.1% of everyone on the map
There now
522% of the people here
Moved on
1878% of the people here
Median tenure
only 19 stays here have both a start and an end on the record, too few to take a median from

Put Motive 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.

Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Motive yet.

After Motive

  • 100%Elsewhere

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

How long people stay

42%<1y
26%1-2y
16%2-4y
11%4-7y
5%7y+
median tenure

19 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: 25 joined, 20 left.

Caliber

Not enough scored profiles here yet (23).

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer4
  2. Software Engineer Intern4
  3. Senior Software Engineer3

3 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 4% of people here.

Where they studied

  1. University of Waterloo21.7%
  2. UC Berkeley13.0%

The 2 most listed schools among the 23 people here with a school on file.

Of the 23 people here with a school on file, 5 list University of Waterloo and 3 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer than that here.

Where they are now

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

Motive
Everyone on the map
  • 61%SF Bay Area14 · map 47%
  • 35%New York8 · map 33%

All 23 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 they worked at Motive: 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 Motive, at any point in a career.

Key facts

  • 23 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Motive: 5 are there now and 18 have moved on.
  • Of those who moved on from Motive, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, fewer than 3 joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and fewer than 3 joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The most common title held at Motive is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
  • Of the 23 people here with a school on file, 5 list University of Waterloo (21.7%), then UC Berkeley (3). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 61% of the 23 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.

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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