After Patreon
- 21%Joined a startup4
- 16%Joined a big company3
- 63%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Patreon most often go to Google. 21% go small. Median stay 2y
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Patreon's headcount: 32 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 307 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 320.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1341% of the people here
- Moved on
- 1959% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 1y 1m to 2y 10m
Put Patreon 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 leave for Google (16% of recorded departures).
33 recorded arrivals from 31 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 33 recorded arrivals shown, 33 more from 31 other companies3 of 19 recorded departures shown, 16 more to 14 other companies
How long people stay
17%<1y
33%1-2y
37%2-4y
10%4-7y
3%7y+
30 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
0012
0013
1014
0115
3216
2017
4018
3319
0520
3221
6122
5323
4124
2325
1026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 34 joined, 21 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 32 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer11
- Engineering Manager3
- Software Engineer Intern3
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 3% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 16%Strong5 people
- 56%Solid18 people
- 28%Emerging9 people
32 of the 32 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 5 of the 32 people here with a read sit in them, 16%. 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.
29%Titles that rose6 of 21 classified people
- 29%Rose6 people
- 71%Stayed level or fell15 people
21 of the 32 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 21 of the 32 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. A direction 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.
Where they studied
- Carnegie Mellon12.5%
- Penn9.4%
The 2 most listed schools among the 32 people here with a school on file.
Of the 32 people here with a school on file, 4 list Carnegie Mellon and 3 list Penn. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
59%have a public GitHub account on their profile
19 of the 32 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
56% of the people who have worked at Patreon and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Patreon
Everyone on the map
- 56%SF Bay Area18 · map 47%
- 41%New York13 · map 33%
All 32 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 they worked at Patreon: 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 Patreon, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 32 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Patreon: 13 are there now and 19 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Patreon is Google (3 people, 16% of recorded departures).
- The median tenure at Patreon is 2y (middle half 1y 1m to 2y 10m).
- Of those who moved on from Patreon, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 21% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 16% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Patreon is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (32 scored).
- The most common title held at Patreon is Software Engineer, then Engineering Manager.
- Of the 32 people here with a school on file, 4 list Carnegie Mellon (12.5%), then Penn (3). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 56% of the 32 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.
- 59% of the 32 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
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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