After Spotify
- 6%Founded something3
- 20%Joined a startup11
- 19%Joined a big company10
- 56%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Spotify most often go to Amazon, Meta and Stripe. 6% found something next. 20% go small. Median stay 3y 7m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Spotify's headcount: 99 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 97 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 990.4% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 4141% of the people here
- Moved on
- 5859% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 7mmiddle half 1y 9m to 5y 2m
Put Spotify 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 Google. Most leave for Amazon (5% of recorded departures).
How long people stay
8%<1y
21%1-2y
28%2-4y
30%4-7y
13%7y+
92 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1012
2213
2114
3115
3016
8617
9518
17319
14320
15821
131322
91523
0424
4125
1026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 101 joined, 62 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 99 scored99
there now 79 moved on 83. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Engineering Manager19
- Software Engineer16
- Senior Software Engineer13
- Senior Engineer7
- Engineering Manager II6
- Data Engineer5
- Software Engineer II5
- Senior Data Engineer4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 3% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 14%Exceptional or strong14 people
- 43%Solid43 people
- 42%Emerging or unproven42 people
99 of the 99 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 14 of the 99 people here with a read sit in them, 14%. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
55%Titles that rose41 of 74 classified people
- 55%Rose41 people
- 45%Stayed level or fell33 people
74 of the 99 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 74 of the 99 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. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley9.2%
- Columbia8.2%
- UT Austin5.1%
- Carnegie Mellon4.1%
- Georgia Tech3.1%
- NYU3.1%
- Stanford3.1%
- University of Maryland3.1%
The 8 most listed schools among the 98 people here with a school on file.
Of the 98 people here with a school on file, 9 list UC Berkeley, 8 list Columbia and 5 list UT Austin. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
52%have a public GitHub account on their profile
51 of the 99 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
77% of the people who have worked at Spotify and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Spotify
Everyone on the map
- 77%New York76 · map 33%
- 15%SF Bay Area15 · map 47%
- 5%Los Angeles5 · map 6%
- 3%Somewhere else3
All 99 people who worked at Spotify 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 Spotify: 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 Spotify, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 99 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Spotify: 41 are there now and 58 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Spotify is Amazon (3 people, 5% of recorded departures), followed by Meta and Stripe.
- The most common previous employer before Spotify is Google (4 people), followed by Meta.
- The median tenure at Spotify is 3y 7m (middle half 1y 9m to 5y 2m).
- Of those who moved on from Spotify, 6% went on to a founder title, 20% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 19% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Spotify is 82 on the 0 to 99 scale (99 scored).
- The most common title held at Spotify is Engineering Manager, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 98 people here with a school on file, 9 list UC Berkeley (9.2%), then Columbia (8). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 77% of the 99 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 52% of the 99 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
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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