After Stripe
- 7%Founded something34
- 24%Joined a startup120
- 18%Joined a big company92
- 51%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Stripe most often go to OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic. Of them, 7% found something next and 24% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 7m
Not Stripe's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 1,082 people on a map of 67,181, No. 19 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1,0821.6% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 59655% of the people here
- Moved on
- 48645% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 7mmiddle half 1y 5m to 4y 3m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for OpenAI (6% of recorded departures).
311 of 1,131 recorded arrivals shown, 820 more from 567 other companies141 of 521 recorded departures shown, 380 more to 290 other companies
The Stripe mafia
34 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 7% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars cover the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
13%<1y
23%1-2y
32%2-4y
30%4-7y
3%7y+
996 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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3013
10<314
12515
14616
26817
582218
823419
1094620
1897421
27218222
12210523
1678024
1307625
551926
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 1,251 joined, 658 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 782 scored99
there now 84 moved on 87. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer642
- Software Engineer Intern235
- Senior Software Engineer131
- Staff Software Engineer66
- Engineering Manager52
- Machine Learning Engineer24
- Software Engineer II18
- AI15
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.
- 6%Exceptional49 people
- 29%Strong228 people
- 48%Solid377 people
- 15%Emerging114 people
- 2%Unproven13 people
781 of the 1,082 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
277 of the 781 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 35%. 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.
37%Titles that rose232 of 624 classified people
- 37%Rose232 people
- 58%Stayed level361 people
- 5%Fell31 people
624 of the 1,082 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 Berkeley12.2%
- Carnegie Mellon7.6%
- Stanford5.5%
- MIT5.1%
- UIUC3.7%
- Georgia Tech3.6%
- Columbia3.6%
- UCLA3.6%
The 8 most listed schools among the 1,070 people here with a school on file.
130 of the 1,070 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 81 list Carnegie Mellon and 59 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
39%have a public GitHub account on their profile
422 of the 1,081 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 Stripe and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Stripe
Everyone on the map
- 48%SF Bay Area515 · map 41%
- 32%New York341 · map 18%
- 10%Seattle109 · map 5%
- 2%Washington DC19 · map 13%
- 1%Los Angeles14 · map 5%
- 0.8%Boston9 · map 2%
- 0.5%Chicago5 · map 0.6%
- 0.5%Denver5 · map 0.8%
- 6%Somewhere else63
1,080 of the 1,082 people who worked at Stripe list a location, and every share here is over those 1,080.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Stripe: 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 Stripe, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 1,082 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Stripe: 596 are there now, 486 have moved on.
- Most leave for OpenAI: 33 people, 6% of recorded departures. Then Meta and Anthropic.
- Most arrive from Meta: 76 people. Then Amazon and Google.
- Median tenure at Stripe: 2y 7m, middle half 1y 5m to 4y 3m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Stripe, 7% went to a founder title next, 24% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 18% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 782 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 130 of the 1,070 people here with one on file (12.2%). Then Carnegie Mellon (81).
- 48% of the 1,080 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.
- 39% of the 1,081 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 232 rose, 361 stayed level, 31 fell, out of the 624 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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