After Pinterest
- 9%Founded something9
- 11%Joined a startup11
- 20%Joined a big company21
- 60%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Pinterest most often go to Meta, Google and OpenAI. 9% found something next. 11% go small. Median stay 3y
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Pinterest's headcount: 153 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 58 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1530.6% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 4831% of the people here
- Moved on
- 10569% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3ymiddle half 1y 6m to 4y 5m
Put Pinterest 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 arrive from Meta. Most leave for Meta (12% of recorded departures).
The Pinterest mafia
9 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 9% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars are the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders count in the total.
How long people stay
17%<1y
17%1-2y
31%2-4y
27%4-7y
8%7y+
131 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1012
2113
5314
151115
221216
13817
161018
191219
191020
9921
221822
12823
12724
2825
1626
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 170 joined, 123 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 153 scored99
there now 83 moved on 85. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer62
- Software Engineer Intern30
- Senior Software Engineer23
- Staff Software Engineer9
- Engineering Manager8
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer6
- Machine Learning Engineer4
- Software Engineer II4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 8% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 5%Exceptional8 people
- 30%Strong46 people
- 48%Solid74 people
- 16%Emerging or unproven25 people
153 of the 153 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 54 of the 153 people here with a read sit in them, 35%. 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.
45%Titles that rose49 of 108 classified people
- 45%Rose49 people
- 55%Stayed level or fell59 people
108 of the 153 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 108 of the 153 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
- UC Berkeley18.5%
- Stanford8.0%
- Carnegie Mellon7.3%
- UIUC5.3%
- MIT4.6%
- UCLA4.0%
- University of Maryland4.0%
- Columbia3.3%
The 8 most listed schools among the 151 people here with a school on file.
Of the 151 people here with a school on file, 28 list UC Berkeley, 12 list Stanford and 11 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
44%have a public GitHub account on their profile
68 of the 153 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
77% of the people who have worked at Pinterest and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Pinterest
Everyone on the map
- 77%SF Bay Area118 · map 47%
- 18%New York28 · map 33%
- 5%Somewhere else7
All 153 people who worked at Pinterest 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 Pinterest: 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 Pinterest, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 153 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Pinterest: 48 are there now and 105 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Pinterest is Meta (13 people, 12% of recorded departures), followed by Google and OpenAI.
- The most common previous employer before Pinterest is Meta (8 people), followed by Amazon and Google.
- The median tenure at Pinterest is 3y (middle half 1y 6m to 4y 5m).
- Of those who moved on from Pinterest, 9% went on to a founder title, 11% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 20% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Pinterest is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (153 scored).
- The most common title held at Pinterest is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 151 people here with a school on file, 28 list UC Berkeley (18.5%), then Stanford (12). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 77% of the 153 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.
- 44% of the 153 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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