After Patreon
- 28%Joined a startup8
- 21%Joined a big company6
- 52%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Patreon most often go to Google. Of them, 28% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 2m
Not Patreon's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 48 people on a map of 67,181, No. 497 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 480.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1940% of the people here
- Moved on
- 2960% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 2mmiddle half 1y 3m to 2y 11m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for Google (14% of recorded departures).
4 of 49 recorded arrivals shown, 45 more from 43 other companies4 of 29 recorded departures shown, 25 more to 21 other companies
How long people stay
17%<1y
26%1-2y
43%2-4y
11%4-7y
2%7y+
46 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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0<315
5<316
3017
8318
3319
0820
3<321
8<322
8423
7<324
<3325
3<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2014 to 2026: 51 joined, 32 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 34 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer18
- Senior Software Engineer6
- Staff Software Engineer4
- Engineering Manager3
- Software Engineer Intern3
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 2% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 15%Strong5 people
- 56%Solid19 people
- 29%Emerging10 people
34 of the 48 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
5 of the 34 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 15%. 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.
33%Titles that rose11 of 33 classified people
- 33%Rose11 people
- 58%Stayed level19 people
- 9%Fell3 people
33 of the 48 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 Berkeley10.4%
- Carnegie Mellon8.3%
- Penn6.3%
The 3 most listed schools among the 48 people here with a school on file.
5 of the 48 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 4 list Carnegie Mellon and 3 list Penn. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
58%have a public GitHub account on their profile
28 of the 48 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
63% of the people who have worked at Patreon and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Patreon
Everyone on the map
- 63%SF Bay Area30 · map 41%
- 31%New York15 · map 18%
- 6%Somewhere else3
All 48 people who worked at Patreon 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 Patreon: 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 Patreon, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 48 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Patreon: 19 are there now, 29 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 4 people, 14% of recorded departures.
- Most arrive from Meta: 4 people.
- Median tenure at Patreon: 2y 2m, middle half 1y 3m to 2y 11m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Patreon, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 28% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 21% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 34 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 5 of the 48 people here with one on file (10.4%). Then Carnegie Mellon (4).
- 63% of the 48 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.
- 58% of the 48 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 11 rose, 19 stayed level, 3 fell, out of the 33 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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