After Opendoor
- 19%Founded something9
- 17%Joined a startup8
- 23%Joined a big company11
- 40%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Opendoor most often go to Meta, OpenAI and Apple. Of them, 19% found something next and 17% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 1m
Not Opendoor's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 56 people on a map of 67,181, No. 424 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 560.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 713% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4988% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 1mmiddle half 1y 5m to 3y 3m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Uber. Most leave for Meta (13% of recorded departures).
The Opendoor mafia
9 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 19% of those who moved on, half of them within a month of leaving. The bars cover the ’19 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
7%<1y
39%1-2y
35%2-4y
19%4-7y
0%7y+
57 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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9<317
14418
5819
3820
8521
81022
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3325
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2016 to 2026: 58 joined, 51 left.
Caliber
85mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 40 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer21
- Senior Software Engineer10
- Staff Software Engineer5
- Engineering3
4 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.
- 38%Exceptional or strong15 people
- 33%Solid13 people
- 30%Emerging or unproven12 people
40 of the 56 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
15 of the 40 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 38%. 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.
55%Titles that rose24 of 44 classified people
- 55%Rose24 people
- 39%Stayed level17 people
- 7%Fell3 people
44 of the 56 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
- Columbia8.9%
- Penn8.9%
- UC Berkeley7.1%
- UCLA7.1%
- Georgia Tech5.4%
- MIT5.4%
- Rice5.4%
- University of Maryland5.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 56 people here with a school on file.
5 of the 56 people here with a school on file list Columbia, 5 list Penn and 4 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
68%have a public GitHub account on their profile
38 of the 56 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
64% of the people who have worked at Opendoor and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Opendoor
Everyone on the map
- 64%SF Bay Area36 · map 41%
- 14%New York8 · map 18%
- 9%Los Angeles5 · map 5%
- 13%Somewhere else7
All 56 people who worked at Opendoor 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 Opendoor: 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 Opendoor, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 56 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Opendoor: 7 are there now, 49 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 6 people, 13% of recorded departures. Then OpenAI and Apple.
- Most arrive from Uber: 4 people. Then Airbnb and Capital One.
- Median tenure at Opendoor: 2y 1m, middle half 1y 5m to 3y 3m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Opendoor, 19% went to a founder title next, 17% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 23% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 85 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 40 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: Columbia, listed by 5 of the 56 people here with one on file (8.9%). Then Penn (5).
- 64% of the 56 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.
- 68% of the 56 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 24 rose, 17 stayed level, 3 fell, out of the 44 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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