After Reddit
- 20%Joined a startup9
- 14%Joined a big company6
- 66%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Reddit most often go to Meta. Of them, 20% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 6m
Not Reddit's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 133 people on a map of 67,181, No. 178 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1330.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 8967% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4433% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 6mmiddle half 1y 3m to 3y 10m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Meta (14% of recorded departures).
47 of 138 recorded arrivals shown, 91 more from 83 other companies6 of 44 recorded departures shown, 38 more to 36 other companies
How long people stay
16%<1y
26%1-2y
35%2-4y
22%4-7y
2%7y+
132 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3<315
5016
6<317
4318
3319
8720
22421
25922
261223
151324
25325
8326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2015 to 2026: 149 joined, 60 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%91
0Eng Scorer caliber, 79 scored99
there now 82 moved on 85. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer43
- Software Engineer29
- Staff Software Engineer19
- Software Engineer Intern14
- Machine Learning Engineer10
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer8
- Engineering Manager7
- Software Engineer III7
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 5%Exceptional4 people
- 22%Strong17 people
- 44%Solid35 people
- 29%Emerging or unproven23 people
79 of the 133 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
21 of the 79 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 27%. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
41%Titles that rose27 of 66 classified people
- 41%Rose27 people
- 52%Stayed level34 people
- 8%Fell5 people
66 of the 133 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 Berkeley10.7%
- UIUC6.1%
- Carnegie Mellon5.3%
- UCLA5.3%
- Columbia4.6%
- Georgia Tech4.6%
- MIT4.6%
- Stanford4.6%
The 8 most listed schools among the 131 people here with a school on file.
14 of the 131 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 8 list UIUC and 7 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
52%have a public GitHub account on their profile
69 of the 133 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
49% of the people who have worked at Reddit and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Reddit
Everyone on the map
- 49%SF Bay Area65 · map 41%
- 29%New York38 · map 18%
- 5%Los Angeles7 · map 5%
- 4%Seattle5 · map 5%
- 3%Washington DC4 · map 13%
- 11%Somewhere else14
All 133 people who worked at Reddit 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 Reddit: 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 Reddit, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 133 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Reddit: 89 are there now, 44 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 6 people, 14% of recorded departures.
- Most arrive from Google: 12 people. Then Meta and Twitter.
- Median tenure at Reddit: 2y 6m, middle half 1y 3m to 3y 10m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Reddit, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 20% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 14% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 79 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 14 of the 131 people here with one on file (10.7%). Then UIUC (8).
- 49% of the 133 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.
- 52% of the 133 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 27 rose, 34 stayed level, 5 fell, out of the 66 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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