After NerdWallet
- 17%Joined a startup7
- 24%Joined a big company10
- 59%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave NerdWallet most often go to Meta. Of them, 17% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 1m
Not NerdWallet's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 49 people on a map of 67,181, No. 485 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 490.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 612% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4388% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 1mmiddle half 1y 4m to 3y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Betable. Most leave for Meta (9% of recorded departures).
How long people stay
14%<1y
28%1-2y
37%2-4y
19%4-7y
2%7y+
43 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: 55 joined, 49 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 38 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer12
- Software Engineer Intern11
- Software Engineer9
- Software Engineer II9
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 6% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 24%Strong9 people
- 42%Solid16 people
- 21%Emerging8 people
- 13%Unproven5 people
38 of the 49 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
9 of the 38 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 24%. 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.
39%Titles that rose16 of 41 classified people
- 39%Rose16 people
- 61%Stayed level or fell25 people
41 of the 49 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 Berkeley18.4%
- Georgia Tech6.1%
- UC Davis6.1%
- UC San Diego6.1%
- University of Waterloo6.1%
The 5 most listed schools among the 49 people here with a school on file.
9 of the 49 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 3 list Georgia Tech and 3 list UC Davis. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
59%have a public GitHub account on their profile
29 of the 49 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
61% of the people who have worked at NerdWallet and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
NerdWallet
Everyone on the map
- 61%SF Bay Area30 · map 41%
- 24%New York12 · map 18%
- 14%Somewhere else7
All 49 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 working at NerdWallet: 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 NerdWallet, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 49 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at NerdWallet: 6 are there now, 43 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 4 people, 9% of recorded departures.
- Most arrive from Betable: 4 people. Then Amazon.
- Median tenure at NerdWallet: 2y 1m, middle half 1y 4m to 3y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after NerdWallet, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 17% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 24% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 82 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 38 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 9 of the 49 people here with one on file (18.4%). Then Georgia Tech (3).
- 61% of the 49 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.
- 59% of the 49 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
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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