After Netflix
- 4%Founded something9
- 12%Joined a startup25
- 26%Joined a big company53
- 57%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Netflix most often go to OpenAI, Apple and Google. Of them, 4% found something next and 12% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 3m
Not Netflix's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 492 people on a map of 67,181, No. 40 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 4920.7% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 29560% of the people here
- Moved on
- 19740% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 3mmiddle half 1y 2m to 3y 9m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for OpenAI (9% of recorded departures).
160 of 493 recorded arrivals shown, 333 more from 245 other companies80 of 210 recorded departures shown, 130 more to 115 other companies
The Netflix mafia
9 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 4% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars cover the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
18%<1y
23%1-2y
36%2-4y
16%4-7y
7%7y+
497 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
5412
5413
6314
11<315
12316
15417
28618
271019
311320
412421
372922
793323
1073424
673325
422626
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 513 joined, 228 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 237 scored99
there now 83 moved on 86. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer148
- Software Engineer140
- Staff Software Engineer27
- Engineering Manager24
- Software Engineer Intern20
- Senior Data Engineer15
- Machine Learning Engineer13
- Data Engineer8
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 5%Exceptional12 people
- 24%Strong58 people
- 49%Solid116 people
- 18%Emerging43 people
- 3%Unproven8 people
237 of the 492 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
70 of the 237 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 30%. 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.
43%Titles that rose105 of 244 classified people
- 43%Rose105 people
- 50%Stayed level121 people
- 7%Fell18 people
244 of the 492 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
- UC Berkeley10.3%
- Stanford9.8%
- Georgia Tech8.0%
- Carnegie Mellon5.5%
- MIT3.7%
- Cornell2.9%
- UC San Diego2.7%
- UIUC2.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 488 people here with a school on file.
50 of the 488 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 48 list Stanford and 39 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
46%have a public GitHub account on their profile
228 of the 492 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
67% of the people who have worked at Netflix and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Netflix
Everyone on the map
- 67%SF Bay Area332 · map 41%
- 14%New York69 · map 18%
- 4%Los Angeles20 · map 5%
- 4%Seattle19 · map 5%
- 2%Washington DC11 · map 13%
- 1%Denver5 · map 0.8%
- 0.8%Austin4 · map 0.8%
- 0.6%Minneapolis3
- 6%Somewhere else29
All 492 people who worked at Netflix 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 Netflix: 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 Netflix, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 492 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Netflix: 295 are there now, 197 have moved on.
- Most leave for OpenAI: 19 people, 9% of recorded departures. Then Apple and Google.
- Most arrive from Google: 36 people. Then Amazon and Meta.
- Median tenure at Netflix: 2y 3m, middle half 1y 2m to 3y 9m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Netflix, 4% went to a founder title next, 12% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 26% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 237 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 50 of the 488 people here with one on file (10.3%). Then Stanford (48).
- 67% of the 492 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.
- 46% of the 492 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 105 rose, 121 stayed level, 18 fell, out of the 244 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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