After Snap Inc.
- 9%Founded something14
- 8%Joined a startup12
- 24%Joined a big company37
- 59%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Snap Inc. most often go to OpenAI, Meta and Google. 9% found something next. Median stay 2y 5m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Snap Inc.'s headcount: 195 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 47 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1950.7% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3216% of the people here
- Moved on
- 16384% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 5mmiddle half 1y 2m to 4y 5m
Put Snap Inc. side by side with another company, every number against every number.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for OpenAI (9% of recorded departures).
65 of 180 recorded arrivals shown, 115 more from 109 other companies44 of 156 recorded departures shown, 112 more to 98 other companies
The Snap Inc. mafia
14 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 9% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars are the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders count in the total.
How long people stay
22%<1y
20%1-2y
27%2-4y
24%4-7y
8%7y+
152 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
0012
1013
2014
4215
24516
30917
112318
101319
281220
402321
312622
82123
112424
81525
0326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 208 joined, 176 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 195 scored99
there now 84 moved on 84. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer77
- Software Engineer Intern50
- Staff Software Engineer10
- Senior Software Engineer8
- Machine Learning Engineer7
- Engineering Manager6
- Product Manager5
- Group Product Manager4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 9% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 5%Exceptional10 people
- 28%Strong55 people
- 46%Solid90 people
- 15%Emerging30 people
- 5%Unproven10 people
195 of the 195 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 65 of the 195 people here with a read sit in them, 33%. A tier is the band an Eng Scorer 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 rose64 of 153 classified people
- 42%Rose64 people
- 54%Stayed level83 people
- 4%Fell6 people
153 of the 195 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 who recorded one title here and then left, it is 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. A title that matches no rung is left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely, being a different ladder. That leaves 153 of the 195 people here classified, and it leans towards people who have left: someone still here on a single recorded title has nothing to be measured against.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley14.7%
- Carnegie Mellon9.0%
- USC7.9%
- Stanford7.4%
- University of Waterloo6.3%
- UCLA5.8%
- Georgia Tech5.3%
- Columbia3.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 190 people here with a school on file.
Of the 190 people here with a school on file, 28 list UC Berkeley, 17 list Carnegie Mellon and 15 list USC. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
48%have a public GitHub account on their profile
94 of the 195 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check did not find reads the same as no account, so this is a floor rather than a census.
Across the 325 companies on the map that can show this figure, the median is 38%.
Where they are now
44% of the people who have worked at Snap Inc. and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Snap Inc.
Everyone on the map
- 44%SF Bay Area85 · map 47%
- 28%New York55 · map 33%
- 22%Los Angeles43 · map 6%
- 4%Seattle7 · map 3%
- 3%Somewhere else5
All 195 people who worked at Snap Inc. 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 they worked at Snap Inc.: a metro here does not mean the company has an office in it. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map, for comparison.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Snap Inc., at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 195 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Snap Inc.: 32 are there now and 163 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Snap Inc. is OpenAI (14 people, 9% of recorded departures), followed by Meta and Google.
- The most common previous employer before Snap Inc. is Meta (19 people), followed by Google and Amazon.
- The median tenure at Snap Inc. is 2y 5m (middle half 1y 2m to 4y 5m).
- Of those who moved on from Snap Inc., 9% went on to a founder title, 8% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 24% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Snap Inc. is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (195 scored).
- The most common title held at Snap Inc. is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 190 people here with a school on file, 28 list UC Berkeley (14.7%), then Carnegie Mellon (17). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 44% of the 195 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 48% of the 195 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 153 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 64 rose, 83 stayed level and 6 fell.
About this data: built from 144,786 jobs across 26,572 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated August 20, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving; companies with fewer than 20 people on the map are not shown, and destinations with fewer than 3 people are folded into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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