After MZ
- 20%Joined a startup4
- 15%Joined a big company3
- 65%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave MZ most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 20% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 6m
Not MZ's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 22 people on a map of 67,181, No. 1,180 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 22Under 0.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 15% of the people here
- Moved on
- 2195% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 6mmiddle half 10m to 2y 9m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for MZ yet.
How long people stay
30%<1y
35%1-2y
26%2-4y
4%4-7y
4%7y+
23 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: 23 joined, 22 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (16).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer7
- Senior Software Engineer4
- Staff Software Engineer3
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
45%Titles that rose9 of 20 classified people
- 45%Rose9 people
- 55%Stayed level or fell11 people
20 of the 22 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. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley13.6%
The one school among the 22 people here with a school on file.
3 of the 22 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley.
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 here.
Where they are now
82% of the people who have worked at MZ and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
MZ
Everyone on the map
- 82%SF Bay Area18 · map 41%
- 18%Somewhere else4
All 22 people who worked at MZ 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 MZ: 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 MZ, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 22 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at MZ: 1 are there now, 21 have moved on.
- Median tenure at MZ: 1y 6m, middle half 10m to 2y 9m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after MZ, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 20% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 15% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 3 of the 22 people here with one on file (13.6%).
- 82% of the 22 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.
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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