After Pandora
- 6%Founded something3
- 17%Joined a startup9
- 22%Joined a big company12
- 56%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Pandora most often go to Google. Of them, 6% found something next and 17% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 3m
Not Pandora's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 59 people on a map of 67,181, No. 408 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 590.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 35% of the people here
- Moved on
- 5695% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 3mmiddle half 1y 7m to 4y
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Google (5% of recorded departures).
48 recorded arrivals from 45 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 48 recorded arrivals shown, 48 more from 45 other companies3 of 55 recorded departures shown, 52 more to 48 other companies
How long people stay
10%<1y
31%1-2y
33%2-4y
22%4-7y
4%7y+
49 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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15817
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41219
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2013 to 2026: 67 joined, 68 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 45 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer18
- Software Engineer18
- Software Engineer Intern16
- Software Engineer III5
- Staff Software Engineer5
- Software Engineer II4
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 17% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 22%Exceptional or strong10 people
- 40%Solid18 people
- 38%Emerging17 people
45 of the 59 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
10 of the 45 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 22%. 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.
47%Titles that rose26 of 55 classified people
- 47%Rose26 people
- 47%Stayed level26 people
- 5%Fell3 people
55 of the 59 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 Berkeley32.2%
- NYU6.8%
The 2 most listed schools among the 59 people here with a school on file.
19 of the 59 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley and 4 list NYU. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
69%have a public GitHub account on their profile
41 of the 59 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
71% of the people who have worked at Pandora and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Pandora
Everyone on the map
- 71%SF Bay Area42 · map 41%
- 24%New York14 · map 18%
- 5%Somewhere else3
All 59 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 working at Pandora: 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 Pandora, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 59 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Pandora: 3 are there now, 56 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 3 people, 5% of recorded departures.
- Median tenure at Pandora: 2y 3m, middle half 1y 7m to 4y.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Pandora, 6% went to a founder title next, 17% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 22% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 45 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 19 of the 59 people here with one on file (32.2%). Then NYU (4).
- 71% of the 59 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.
- 69% of the 59 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 26 rose, 26 stayed level, 3 fell, out of the 55 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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