After Snap
- 5%Founded something16
- 11%Joined a startup32
- 39%Joined a big company116
- 45%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Snap most often go to Google, Meta and OpenAI. Of them, 5% found something next and 11% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 1m
Not Snap's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 405 people on a map of 67,181, No. 54 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 4050.6% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 9423% of the people here
- Moved on
- 31177% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 1mmiddle half 1y 1m to 4y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for Google (10% of recorded departures).
156 of 386 recorded arrivals shown, 230 more from 192 other companies117 of 305 recorded departures shown, 188 more to 140 other companies
The Snap mafia
16 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 5% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars cover the ’18 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
23%<1y
24%1-2y
27%2-4y
20%4-7y
6%7y+
334 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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4<314
7<315
36716
581717
193818
192319
471720
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545922
284023
424124
374825
71126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2013 to 2026: 431 joined, 337 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 218 scored99
there now 83 moved on 84. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer166
- Software Engineer Intern75
- Machine Learning Engineer51
- Staff Software Engineer21
- Senior Software Engineer15
- Engineering Manager7
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer7
- Product Manager6
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 6% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 5%Exceptional11 people
- 26%Strong56 people
- 42%Solid92 people
- 22%Emerging47 people
- 6%Unproven12 people
218 of the 405 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
67 of the 218 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.
46%Titles that rose135 of 296 classified people
- 46%Rose135 people
- 51%Stayed level152 people
- 3%Fell9 people
296 of the 405 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 Berkeley13.0%
- Carnegie Mellon8.5%
- Georgia Tech8.3%
- Stanford7.8%
- USC7.0%
- MIT5.0%
- UCLA4.8%
- UIUC3.8%
The 8 most listed schools among the 400 people here with a school on file.
52 of the 400 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 34 list Carnegie Mellon and 33 list Georgia Tech. 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
168 of the 405 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
48% of the people who have worked at Snap and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Snap
Everyone on the map
- 48%SF Bay Area193 · map 41%
- 19%New York75 · map 18%
- 16%Los Angeles66 · map 5%
- 10%Seattle42 · map 5%
- 3%Washington DC11 · map 13%
- 4%Somewhere else18
All 405 people who worked at Snap 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 Snap: 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 Snap, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 405 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Snap: 94 are there now, 311 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 31 people, 10% of recorded departures. Then Meta and OpenAI.
- Most arrive from Meta: 42 people. Then Google and Amazon.
- Median tenure at Snap: 2y 1m, middle half 1y 1m to 4y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Snap, 5% went to a founder title next, 11% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 39% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 218 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 52 of the 400 people here with one on file (13.0%). Then Carnegie Mellon (34).
- 48% of the 405 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 405 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 135 rose, 152 stayed level, 9 fell, out of the 296 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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