After Rippling
- 8%Founded something4
- 8%Joined a startup4
- 17%Joined a big company8
- 67%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Rippling most often go to OpenAI. Of them, 8% found something next. The median tenure is 2y
Not Rippling's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 144 people on a map of 67,181, No. 167 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1440.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 9767% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4733% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 1y 2m to 2y 11m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for OpenAI (6% of recorded departures).
28 of 141 recorded arrivals shown, 113 more from 105 other companies3 of 48 recorded departures shown, 45 more to 40 other companies
How long people stay
16%<1y
33%1-2y
37%2-4y
11%4-7y
2%7y+
135 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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<3017
0018
<3<319
5020
10<321
311522
21723
36524
311125
111126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2016 to 2026: 149 joined, 52 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 98 scored99
there now 84 moved on 84. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer53
- Senior Software Engineer41
- Staff Software Engineer22
- Software Engineer II15
- Software Engineer Intern13
- Engineering Manager9
- Senior Engineering Manager5
- Senior Staff Software Engineer4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 3%Exceptional3 people
- 28%Strong27 people
- 48%Solid47 people
- 21%Emerging21 people
98 of the 144 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
30 of the 98 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.
42%Titles that rose30 of 72 classified people
- 42%Rose30 people
- 49%Stayed level35 people
- 10%Fell7 people
72 of the 144 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 Berkeley13.9%
- UCLA5.6%
- University of Waterloo5.6%
- Stanford4.9%
- Carnegie Mellon4.2%
- Penn3.5%
- Georgia Tech2.8%
- MIT2.8%
The 8 most listed schools among the 144 people here with a school on file.
20 of the 144 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 8 list UCLA and 8 list University of Waterloo. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
41%have a public GitHub account on their profile
59 of the 144 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
56% of the people who have worked at Rippling and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Rippling
Everyone on the map
- 56%SF Bay Area81 · map 41%
- 38%New York54 · map 18%
- 3%Seattle5 · map 5%
- 3%Somewhere else4
All 144 people who worked at Rippling 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 Rippling: 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 Rippling, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 144 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Rippling: 97 are there now, 47 have moved on.
- Most leave for OpenAI: 3 people, 6% of recorded departures.
- Most arrive from Meta: 6 people. Then Amazon and AWS.
- Median tenure at Rippling: 2y, middle half 1y 2m to 2y 11m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Rippling, 8% went to a founder title next, 8% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 17% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 98 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 20 of the 144 people here with one on file (13.9%). Then UCLA (8).
- 56% of the 144 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.
- 41% of the 144 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 30 rose, 35 stayed level, 7 fell, out of the 72 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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