After Starbucks
- 25%Joined a startup19
- 28%Joined a big company21
- 47%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Starbucks most often go to Amazon and Microsoft. Of them, 25% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 4m
Not Starbucks's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 88 people on a map of 67,181, No. 272 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 880.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 45% of the people here
- Moved on
- 8495% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 4mmiddle half 6m to 2y 5m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Amazon (4% of recorded departures).
3 of 54 recorded arrivals shown, 51 more from 51 other companies6 of 78 recorded departures shown, 72 more to 68 other companies
How long people stay
44%<1y
22%1-2y
26%2-4y
2%4-7y
6%7y+
89 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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4313
4<314
6315
10416
9417
131518
81119
71220
4321
8922
3623
4424
4625
0<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 85 joined, 82 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (27).
Titles held here
- Barista43
- Shift Supervisor7
- Application Developer II4
- Lead Software Engineer3
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 38% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
36%Titles that rose9 of 25 classified people
- 36%Rose9 people
- 48%Stayed level12 people
- 16%Fell4 people
25 of the 88 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
- University of Washington11.4%
- Stanford5.7%
- Arizona State4.6%
- Georgia Tech4.6%
- UC Berkeley4.6%
- MIT3.4%
- University of Maryland3.4%
- USC3.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 88 people here with a school on file.
10 of the 88 people here with a school on file list University of Washington, 5 list Stanford and 4 list Arizona State. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
26%have a public GitHub account on their profile
23 of the 88 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
25% of the people who have worked at Starbucks and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Starbucks
Everyone on the map
- 25%SF Bay Area22 · map 41%
- 22%Seattle19 · map 5%
- 9%New York8 · map 18%
- 9%Washington DC8 · map 13%
- 8%Los Angeles7 · map 5%
- 27%Somewhere else24
All 88 people who worked at Starbucks 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 Starbucks: 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 Starbucks, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 88 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Starbucks: 4 are there now, 84 have moved on.
- Most leave for Amazon: 3 people, 4% of recorded departures. Then Microsoft.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 3 people.
- Median tenure at Starbucks: 1y 4m, middle half 6m to 2y 5m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Starbucks, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 25% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 28% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Barista, then Shift Supervisor.
- Top school: University of Washington, listed by 10 of the 88 people here with one on file (11.4%). Then Stanford (5).
- 25% of the 88 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.
- 26% of the 88 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 9 rose, 12 stayed level, 4 fell, out of the 25 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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