After Pandora
- 17%Joined a startup6
- 11%Joined a big company4
- 72%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Pandora most often go to a long tail of companies. 17% go small. Median stay 2y 4m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Pandora's headcount: 41 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 245 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 410.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 37% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3893% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 4mmiddle half 1y 7m to 3y 10m
Put Pandora 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.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Pandora yet.
How long people stay
8%<1y
33%1-2y
33%2-4y
22%4-7y
3%7y+
36 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
0012
2313
4014
8515
9616
12717
5618
2919
1520
0321
4322
0023
1124
0025
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 48 joined, 48 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 41 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer14
- Software Engineer14
- Software Engineer Intern12
- Software Engineer III5
- Software Engineer II4
- Staff Software Engineer3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 20% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 24%Exceptional or strong10 people
- 39%Solid16 people
- 37%Emerging15 people
41 of the 41 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 10 of the 41 people here with a read sit in them, 24%. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
46%Titles that rose17 of 37 classified people
- 46%Rose17 people
- 46%Stayed level17 people
- 8%Fell3 people
37 of the 41 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 37 of the 41 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 Berkeley29.3%
- NYU7.3%
The 2 most listed schools among the 41 people here with a school on file.
Of the 41 people here with a school on file, 12 list UC Berkeley and 3 list NYU. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
83%have a public GitHub account on their profile
34 of the 41 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
71% of the people who have worked at Pandora and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Pandora
Everyone on the map
- 71%SF Bay Area29 · map 47%
- 27%New York11 · map 33%
All 41 people who worked at Pandora 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 Pandora: 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 Pandora, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 41 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Pandora: 3 are there now and 38 have moved on.
- The median tenure at Pandora is 2y 4m (middle half 1y 7m to 3y 10m).
- Of those who moved on from Pandora, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 17% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 11% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Pandora is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (41 scored).
- The most common title held at Pandora is Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 41 people here with a school on file, 12 list UC Berkeley (29.3%), then NYU (3). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 71% of the 41 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.
- 83% of the 41 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 37 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 17 rose, 17 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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