After Shift
- 14%Joined a startup3
- 18%Joined a big company4
- 68%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Shift most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 14% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 11m
Not Shift's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 23 people on a map of 67,181, No. 1,129 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 23Under 0.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 00% of the people here
- Moved on
- 23100% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 11mmiddle half 1y to 2y 6m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google.
23 recorded departures to 20 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them
18%4Google4 of 22 recorded arrivals shown, 18 more from 18 other companies0 of 23 recorded departures shown, 23 more to 20 other companies
How long people stay
19%<1y
33%1-2y
38%2-4y
10%4-7y
0%7y+
21 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2014 to 2026: 25 joined, 25 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (19).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer13
- Engineering Manager3
- Senior Software Engineer3
- Software Engineer Intern3
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 13% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
52%Titles that rose11 of 21 classified people
- 52%Rose11 people
- 48%Stayed level or fell10 people
21 of the 23 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
Not enough education on the record here.22 of the 23 people here have a school on file, but no school is listed by as many as 3 people, the fewest this map will count.
Public work
Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer here.
Where they are now
55% of the people who have worked at Shift and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Shift
Everyone on the map
- 55%SF Bay Area12 · map 41%
- 18%Los Angeles4 · map 5%
- 18%New York4 · map 18%
22 of the 23 people who worked at Shift list a location, and every share here is over those 22.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Shift: 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 Shift, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 23 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Shift: 0 are there now, 23 have moved on.
- Most arrive from Google: 4 people.
- Median tenure at Shift: 1y 11m, middle half 1y to 2y 6m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Shift, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 14% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 18% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Engineering Manager.
- 55% of the 22 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.
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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