After Nextdoor
- 21%Joined a startup7
- 21%Joined a big company7
- 59%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Nextdoor most often go to a long tail of companies. 21% go small. Median stay 3y
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Nextdoor's headcount: 49 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 191 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 490.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1429% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3571% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3ymiddle half 1y 7m to 4y
Put Nextdoor 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 Meta.
37 recorded departures to 32 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them
5Meta5 of 48 recorded arrivals shown, 43 more from 42 other companies0 of 37 recorded departures shown, 37 more to 32 other companies
How long people stay
12%<1y
22%1-2y
39%2-4y
27%4-7y
0%7y+
41 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
0012
1013
4314
2015
0116
5517
5418
7419
6120
5521
5522
6523
4524
3125
0126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 53 joined, 40 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%91
0Eng Scorer caliber, 49 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer21
- Software Engineer Intern11
- Senior Software Engineer10
- Staff Software Engineer7
- Engineering Manager4
- Machine Learning Engineer3
6 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.
- 6%Exceptional3 people
- 22%Strong11 people
- 49%Solid24 people
- 22%Emerging11 people
49 of the 49 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 14 of the 49 people here with a read sit in them, 29%. 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.
44%Titles that rose16 of 36 classified people
- 44%Rose16 people
- 56%Stayed level20 people
36 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 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 36 of the 49 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.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley27.1%
- Georgia Tech6.3%
- Rutgers6.3%
- Stanford6.3%
The 4 most listed schools among the 48 people here with a school on file.
Of the 48 people here with a school on file, 13 list UC Berkeley, 3 list Georgia Tech and 3 list Rutgers. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
47%have a public GitHub account on their profile
23 of the 49 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
67% of the people who have worked at Nextdoor and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Nextdoor
Everyone on the map
- 67%SF Bay Area33 · map 47%
- 33%New York16 · map 33%
All 49 people who worked at Nextdoor 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 Nextdoor: 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 Nextdoor, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 49 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Nextdoor: 14 are there now and 35 have moved on.
- The most common previous employer before Nextdoor is Meta (5 people).
- The median tenure at Nextdoor is 3y (middle half 1y 7m to 4y).
- Of those who moved on from Nextdoor, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 21% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 21% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Nextdoor is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (49 scored).
- The most common title held at Nextdoor is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 48 people here with a school on file, 13 list UC Berkeley (27.1%), then Georgia Tech (3). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 67% of the 49 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.
- 47% of the 49 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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