After NerdWallet
- 16%Joined a startup5
- 16%Joined a big company5
- 68%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave NerdWallet most often go to a long tail of companies. 16% go small. Median stay 2y 1m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not NerdWallet's headcount: 36 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 279 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 360.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 411% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3289% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 1mmiddle half 1y 4m to 3y 2m
Put NerdWallet 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 Betable.
34 recorded departures to 29 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them
4Betable4 of 39 recorded arrivals shown, 35 more from 31 other companies0 of 34 recorded departures shown, 34 more to 29 other companies
How long people stay
16%<1y
25%1-2y
41%2-4y
19%4-7y
0%7y+
32 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1012
0013
2014
3215
3316
6217
2418
6819
8120
3421
5522
1323
1524
0025
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 41 joined, 37 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%91
0Eng Scorer caliber, 36 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer9
- Software Engineer Intern8
- Software Engineer6
- Software Engineer II6
4 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.
- 25%Strong9 people
- 42%Solid15 people
- 22%Emerging8 people
- 11%Unproven4 people
36 of the 36 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 9 of the 36 people here with a read sit in them, 25%. 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.
37%Titles that rose11 of 30 classified people
- 37%Rose11 people
- 63%Stayed level or fell19 people
30 of the 36 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 30 of the 36 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. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley19.4%
The one school among the 36 people here with a school on file.
Of the 36 people here with a school on file, 7 list UC Berkeley.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
56%have a public GitHub account on their profile
20 of the 36 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
64% of the people who have worked at NerdWallet and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
NerdWallet
Everyone on the map
- 64%SF Bay Area23 · map 47%
- 28%New York10 · map 33%
- 8%Somewhere else3
All 36 people who worked at NerdWallet 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 NerdWallet: 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 NerdWallet, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 36 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at NerdWallet: 4 are there now and 32 have moved on.
- The most common previous employer before NerdWallet is Betable (4 people).
- The median tenure at NerdWallet is 2y 1m (middle half 1y 4m to 3y 2m).
- Of those who moved on from NerdWallet, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 16% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 16% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at NerdWallet is 82 on the 0 to 99 scale (36 scored).
- The most common title held at NerdWallet is Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 36 people here with a school on file, 7 list UC Berkeley (19.4%). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 64% of the 36 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.
- 56% of the 36 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
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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