After Snowflake
- 3%Founded something4
- 19%Joined a startup27
- 24%Joined a big company33
- 54%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Snowflake most often go to Google, Databricks and Meta. Of them, 19% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 1m
Not Snowflake's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 384 people on a map of 67,181, No. 57 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 3840.6% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 24163% of the people here
- Moved on
- 14337% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 1mmiddle half 1y 1m to 3y 4m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for Google (11% of recorded departures).
134 of 376 recorded arrivals shown, 242 more from 171 other companies57 of 144 recorded departures shown, 87 more to 79 other companies
How long people stay
21%<1y
26%1-2y
37%2-4y
13%4-7y
3%7y+
350 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3012
0013
<3<314
<3015
<3016
4<317
3<318
19<319
351220
301721
392122
812523
893524
663325
291226
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 400 joined, 160 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%92
0Eng Scorer caliber, 204 scored99
there now 84 moved on 84. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer143
- Senior Software Engineer100
- Software Engineer Intern44
- Staff Software Engineer32
- Principal Software Engineer19
- Software Engineer II12
- Engineering Manager7
- Machine Learning Engineer4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 2% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 2%Exceptional5 people
- 30%Strong62 people
- 42%Solid85 people
- 24%Emerging49 people
- 1%Unproven3 people
204 of the 384 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
67 of the 204 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 33%. 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.
52%Titles that rose94 of 181 classified people
- 52%Rose94 people
- 43%Stayed level77 people
- 6%Fell10 people
181 of the 384 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 Berkeley12.0%
- Carnegie Mellon9.4%
- Stanford6.5%
- Georgia Tech5.5%
- University of Waterloo4.2%
- University of Washington3.9%
- Columbia3.4%
- UC San Diego3.1%
The 8 most listed schools among the 383 people here with a school on file.
46 of the 383 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 36 list Carnegie Mellon and 25 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
35%have a public GitHub account on their profile
135 of the 384 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
72% of the people who have worked at Snowflake and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Snowflake
Everyone on the map
- 72%SF Bay Area276 · map 41%
- 13%Seattle50 · map 5%
- 7%New York26 · map 18%
- 2%Washington DC9 · map 13%
- 0.8%Los Angeles3 · map 5%
- 5%Somewhere else20
All 384 people who worked at Snowflake 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 Snowflake: 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 Snowflake, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 384 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Snowflake: 241 are there now, 143 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 16 people, 11% of recorded departures. Then Databricks and Meta.
- Most arrive from Meta: 27 people. Then Amazon and Google.
- Median tenure at Snowflake: 2y 1m, middle half 1y 1m to 3y 4m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Snowflake, 3% went to a founder title next, 19% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 24% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 204 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 46 of the 383 people here with one on file (12.0%). Then Carnegie Mellon (36).
- 72% of the 384 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.
- 35% of the 384 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 94 rose, 77 stayed level, 10 fell, out of the 181 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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