After Notion
- 38%Joined a startup6
- 63%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Notion most often go to Cursor. 38% go small. Median stay 2y 6m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Notion's headcount: 93 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 105 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 930.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 7682% of the people here
- Moved on
- 1718% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 6mmiddle half 1y 6m to 3y 9m
Put Notion 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 Skiff (acquired by Notion). Most leave for Cursor (19% of recorded departures).
16 of 95 recorded arrivals shown, 79 more from 72 other companies3 of 16 recorded departures shown, 13 more to 11 other companies
How long people stay
10%<1y
23%1-2y
44%2-4y
23%4-7y
0%7y+
91 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: 94 joined, 18 left.
Caliber
86mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 93 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer65
- Engineering Manager11
- Staff Software Engineer4
- Senior Software Engineer3
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 9%Exceptional8 people
- 38%Strong35 people
- 46%Solid43 people
- 8%Emerging7 people
93 of the 93 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 43 of the 93 people here with a read sit in them, 46%. 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.
25%Titles that rose8 of 32 classified people
- 25%Rose8 people
- 66%Stayed level21 people
- 9%Fell3 people
32 of the 93 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 32 of the 93 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 Berkeley14.0%
- Stanford8.6%
- University of Michigan6.5%
- Carnegie Mellon5.4%
- Georgia Tech5.4%
- UC San Diego4.3%
- UCLA4.3%
- University of Maryland3.2%
The 8 most listed schools among the 93 people here with a school on file.
Of the 93 people here with a school on file, 13 list UC Berkeley, 8 list Stanford and 6 list University of Michigan. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
68%have a public GitHub account on their profile
63 of the 93 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
66% of the people who have worked at Notion and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Notion
Everyone on the map
- 66%SF Bay Area61 · map 47%
- 32%New York30 · map 33%
All 93 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 they worked at Notion: 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 Notion, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 93 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Notion: 76 are there now and 17 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Notion is Cursor (3 people, 19% of recorded departures).
- The most common previous employer before Notion is Skiff (acquired by Notion) (5 people), followed by Google and Stripe.
- The median tenure at Notion is 2y 6m (middle half 1y 6m to 3y 9m).
- Of those who moved on from Notion, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 38% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and fewer than 3 joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Notion is 86 on the 0 to 99 scale (93 scored).
- The most common title held at Notion is Software Engineer, then Engineering Manager.
- Of the 93 people here with a school on file, 13 list UC Berkeley (14.0%), then Stanford (8). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 66% of the 93 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.
- 68% of the 93 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 32 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 8 rose, 21 stayed level and 3 fell.
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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