After Nextdoor
- 6%Founded something3
- 18%Joined a startup9
- 18%Joined a big company9
- 58%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Nextdoor most often go to Kleiner Perkins and Pinterest. Of them, 6% found something next and 18% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y 1m
Not Nextdoor's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 73 people on a map of 67,181, No. 317 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 730.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 2129% of the people here
- Moved on
- 5271% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 1mmiddle half 1y 8m to 4y 5m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for Kleiner Perkins (6% of recorded departures).
8 of 73 recorded arrivals shown, 65 more from 62 other companies6 of 53 recorded departures shown, 47 more to 41 other companies
How long people stay
15%<1y
16%1-2y
39%2-4y
29%4-7y
2%7y+
62 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3013
6414
3015
0<316
6517
8718
8519
8<320
9621
9722
11923
7824
3525
0<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2013 to 2026: 79 joined, 59 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%92
0Eng Scorer caliber, 53 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer33
- Software Engineer Intern17
- Senior Software Engineer11
- Staff Software Engineer11
- Engineering Manager5
- Machine Learning Engineer5
- Senior Engineering Manager3
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 4% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 6%Exceptional3 people
- 21%Strong11 people
- 51%Solid27 people
- 23%Emerging or unproven12 people
53 of the 73 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
14 of the 53 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 26%. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
49%Titles that rose26 of 53 classified people
- 49%Rose26 people
- 51%Stayed level or fell27 people
53 of the 73 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 Berkeley19.4%
- Georgia Tech8.3%
- Stanford8.3%
- Rutgers6.9%
The 4 most listed schools among the 72 people here with a school on file.
14 of the 72 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 6 list Georgia Tech and 6 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
45%have a public GitHub account on their profile
33 of the 73 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 Nextdoor and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Nextdoor
Everyone on the map
- 67%SF Bay Area49 · map 41%
- 30%New York22 · map 18%
All 73 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 working at Nextdoor: 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 Nextdoor, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 73 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Nextdoor: 21 are there now, 52 have moved on.
- Most leave for Kleiner Perkins: 3 people, 6% of recorded departures. Then Pinterest.
- Most arrive from Meta: 8 people.
- Median tenure at Nextdoor: 3y 1m, middle half 1y 8m to 4y 5m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Nextdoor, 6% went to a founder title next, 18% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 18% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 53 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 14 of the 72 people here with one on file (19.4%). Then Georgia Tech (6).
- 67% of the 73 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.
- 45% of the 73 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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