After Notion
- 30%Joined a startup8
- 19%Joined a big company5
- 52%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Notion most often go to Anthropic and Cursor. Of them, 30% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 5m
Not Notion's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 131 people on a map of 67,181, No. 180 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1310.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 10379% of the people here
- Moved on
- 2821% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 5mmiddle half 1y 4m to 3y 3m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Anthropic (15% of recorded departures).
30 of 130 recorded arrivals shown, 100 more from 89 other companies7 of 27 recorded departures shown, 20 more to 18 other companies
How long people stay
16%<1y
25%1-2y
40%2-4y
19%4-7y
1%7y+
126 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3015
0<316
0017
0018
<3019
<3020
12021
20<322
24323
35724
311425
7326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2015 to 2026: 132 joined, 29 left.
Caliber
86mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 98 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer82
- Engineering Manager11
- Senior Software Engineer5
- Software Engineer Intern5
- Staff Software Engineer5
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 8%Exceptional8 people
- 38%Strong37 people
- 45%Solid44 people
- 9%Emerging9 people
98 of the 131 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
45 of the 98 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 46%. 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.
26%Titles that rose11 of 42 classified people
- 26%Rose11 people
- 64%Stayed level27 people
- 10%Fell4 people
42 of the 131 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 Berkeley13.7%
- Stanford10.7%
- Carnegie Mellon6.1%
- Georgia Tech6.1%
- MIT5.3%
- University of Michigan5.3%
- UCLA3.8%
- Columbia3.1%
The 8 most listed schools among the 131 people here with a school on file.
18 of the 131 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 14 list Stanford and 8 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
61%have a public GitHub account on their profile
80 of the 131 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
65% of the people who have worked at Notion and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Notion
Everyone on the map
- 65%SF Bay Area85 · map 41%
- 29%New York38 · map 18%
- 2%Washington DC3 · map 13%
- 4%Somewhere else5
All 131 people who worked at Notion 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 Notion: 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 Notion, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 131 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Notion: 103 are there now, 28 have moved on.
- Most leave for Anthropic: 4 people, 15% of recorded departures. Then Cursor.
- Most arrive from Google: 5 people. Then Skiff (acquired by Notion) and Amazon.
- Median tenure at Notion: 2y 5m, middle half 1y 4m to 3y 3m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Notion, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 30% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 19% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 86 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 98 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Engineering Manager.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 18 of the 131 people here with one on file (13.7%). Then Stanford (14).
- 65% of the 131 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.
- 61% of the 131 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 11 rose, 27 stayed level, 4 fell, out of the 42 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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