After Pinterest
- 6%Founded something15
- 15%Joined a startup37
- 32%Joined a big company79
- 47%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Pinterest most often go to Meta, Google and OpenAI. Of them, 6% found something next and 15% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 5m
Not Pinterest's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 423 people on a map of 67,181, No. 50 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 4230.6% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 17742% of the people here
- Moved on
- 24658% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 5mmiddle half 1y 2m to 4y 3m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for Meta (14% of recorded departures).
159 of 415 recorded arrivals shown, 256 more from 211 other companies102 of 259 recorded departures shown, 157 more to 123 other companies
The Pinterest mafia
15 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 6% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars cover the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
17%<1y
22%1-2y
31%2-4y
23%4-7y
7%7y+
387 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3<312
5<313
14814
221215
321716
302017
422018
382119
452520
252021
564222
322123
642224
503625
92326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 466 joined, 290 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 184 scored99
there now 82 moved on 84. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer145
- Machine Learning Engineer60
- Senior Software Engineer56
- Software Engineer Intern54
- Staff Software Engineer28
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer18
- Engineering Manager15
- Software Engineer II12
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 6% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 5%Exceptional9 people
- 26%Strong48 people
- 44%Solid81 people
- 23%Emerging43 people
- 2%Unproven3 people
184 of the 423 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
57 of the 184 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 31%. 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.
47%Titles that rose120 of 258 classified people
- 47%Rose120 people
- 49%Stayed level126 people
- 5%Fell12 people
258 of the 423 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 Berkeley13.6%
- Stanford9.6%
- Carnegie Mellon7.9%
- Georgia Tech6.2%
- MIT6.2%
- UCLA4.5%
- Columbia3.6%
- UIUC3.6%
The 8 most listed schools among the 419 people here with a school on file.
57 of the 419 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 40 list Stanford and 33 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
43%have a public GitHub account on their profile
183 of the 423 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
72% of the people who have worked at Pinterest and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Pinterest
Everyone on the map
- 72%SF Bay Area304 · map 41%
- 14%New York61 · map 18%
- 6%Seattle26 · map 5%
- 2%Los Angeles9 · map 5%
- 2%Washington DC7 · map 13%
- 0.7%Austin3 · map 0.8%
- 3%Somewhere else13
All 423 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 working at Pinterest: 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 Pinterest, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 423 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Pinterest: 177 are there now, 246 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 35 people, 14% of recorded departures. Then Google and OpenAI.
- Most arrive from Meta: 39 people. Then Google and Amazon.
- Median tenure at Pinterest: 2y 5m, middle half 1y 2m to 4y 3m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Pinterest, 6% went to a founder title next, 15% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 32% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 184 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Machine Learning Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 57 of the 419 people here with one on file (13.6%). Then Stanford (40).
- 72% of the 423 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.
- 43% of the 423 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 120 rose, 126 stayed level, 12 fell, out of the 258 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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