After Square
- 3%Founded something6
- 21%Joined a startup41
- 24%Joined a big company47
- 52%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Square most often go to Meta, Google and Cash App. Of them, 3% found something next and 21% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y 9m
Not Square's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 265 people on a map of 67,181, No. 87 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2650.4% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 6223% of the people here
- Moved on
- 20377% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 9mmiddle half 2y to 5y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Meta (5% of recorded departures).
69 of 248 recorded arrivals shown, 179 more from 167 other companies64 of 201 recorded departures shown, 137 more to 119 other companies
How long people stay
12%<1y
12%1-2y
28%2-4y
39%4-7y
9%7y+
214 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
4412
8<313
13614
17715
272016
272017
351518
303219
362520
351221
282022
111523
72024
31625
01126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 281 joined, 225 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%92
0Eng Scorer caliber, 185 scored99
there now 83 moved on 84. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer95
- Senior Software Engineer58
- Software Engineer Intern57
- Engineering Manager30
- Staff Software Engineer14
- Machine Learning Engineer8
- Product Manager5
- Data Science Intern3
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.
- 4%Exceptional8 people
- 24%Strong45 people
- 52%Solid96 people
- 15%Emerging27 people
- 5%Unproven9 people
185 of the 265 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
53 of the 185 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 29%. 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.
43%Titles that rose91 of 210 classified people
- 43%Rose91 people
- 53%Stayed level111 people
- 4%Fell8 people
210 of the 265 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 Berkeley8.4%
- Georgia Tech6.1%
- MIT5.0%
- Penn4.6%
- Stanford4.6%
- Columbia4.2%
- Cornell3.8%
- UCLA3.8%
The 8 most listed schools among the 262 people here with a school on file.
22 of the 262 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 16 list Georgia Tech and 13 list MIT. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
55%have a public GitHub account on their profile
147 of the 265 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
56% of the people who have worked at Square and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Square
Everyone on the map
- 56%SF Bay Area149 · map 41%
- 30%New York79 · map 18%
- 4%Los Angeles11 · map 5%
- 2%Atlanta5 · map 1%
- 2%Seattle4 · map 5%
- 1%Austin3 · map 0.8%
- 1%Washington DC3 · map 13%
- 4%Somewhere else11
All 265 people who worked at Square 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 Square: 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 Square, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 265 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Square: 62 are there now, 203 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 11 people, 5% of recorded departures. Then Google and Cash App.
- Most arrive from Google: 24 people. Then Amazon and Meta.
- Median tenure at Square: 3y 9m, middle half 2y to 5y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Square, 3% went to a founder title next, 21% 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 185 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 22 of the 262 people here with one on file (8.4%). Then Georgia Tech (16).
- 56% of the 265 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.
- 55% of the 265 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 91 rose, 111 stayed level, 8 fell, out of the 210 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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