After Quora
- 4%Founded something3
- 22%Joined a startup17
- 28%Joined a big company22
- 47%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Quora most often go to Google, Meta and Hudson River Trading. Of them, 4% found something next and 22% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 4m
Not Quora's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 87 people on a map of 67,181, No. 275 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 870.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 78% of the people here
- Moved on
- 8092% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 4mmiddle half 1y 8m to 4y 6m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for Google (11% of recorded departures).
24 of 75 recorded arrivals shown, 51 more from 46 other companies24 of 82 recorded departures shown, 58 more to 50 other companies
How long people stay
10%<1y
26%1-2y
34%2-4y
22%4-7y
7%7y+
58 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
6512
8513
12614
7415
71016
131517
9718
161119
41020
<3521
9422
0323
<3324
0<325
0<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 93 joined, 91 left.
Caliber
85mediantop 10%96
0Eng Scorer caliber, 52 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer31
- Software Engineer Intern28
- Machine Learning Engineer11
- Staff Software Engineer5
- Engineering Manager3
- Intern3
- Product Design Intern3
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 11% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 15%Exceptional8 people
- 31%Strong16 people
- 38%Solid20 people
- 15%Emerging8 people
52 of the 87 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
24 of the 52 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 46%. 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.
34%Titles that rose26 of 77 classified people
- 34%Rose26 people
- 66%Stayed level or fell51 people
77 of the 87 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. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- MIT19.8%
- Carnegie Mellon10.5%
- Harvard10.5%
- UC Berkeley9.3%
- University of Waterloo7.0%
- Stanford5.8%
- Georgia Tech4.7%
- National University of Singapore3.5%
The 8 most listed schools among the 86 people here with a school on file.
17 of the 86 people here with a school on file list MIT, 9 list Carnegie Mellon and 9 list Harvard. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
59%have a public GitHub account on their profile
51 of the 87 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 Quora and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Quora
Everyone on the map
- 72%SF Bay Area63 · map 41%
- 20%New York17 · map 18%
- 3%Seattle3 · map 5%
- 5%Somewhere else4
All 87 people who worked at Quora 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 Quora: 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 Quora, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 87 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Quora: 7 are there now, 80 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 9 people, 11% of recorded departures. Then Meta and Hudson River Trading.
- Most arrive from Meta: 12 people. Then Google and Amazon.
- Median tenure at Quora: 2y 4m, middle half 1y 8m to 4y 6m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Quora, 4% went to a founder title next, 22% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 28% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 85 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 52 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: MIT, listed by 17 of the 86 people here with one on file (19.8%). Then Carnegie Mellon (9).
- 72% of the 87 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.
- 59% of the 87 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
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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