After Stripe
- 7%Founded something23
- 22%Joined a startup68
- 14%Joined a big company44
- 56%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Stripe most often go to OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic. 7% found something next. 22% go small. Median stay 2y 9m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Stripe's headcount: 713 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 8 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 7132.7% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 42459% of the people here
- Moved on
- 28941% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 9mmiddle half 1y 6m to 4y 2m
Put Stripe 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 Meta. Most leave for OpenAI (6% of recorded departures).
201 of 748 recorded arrivals shown, 547 more from 400 other companies82 of 322 recorded departures shown, 240 more to 192 other companies
The Stripe mafia
23 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 are the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders count in the total.
How long people stay
12%<1y
22%1-2y
31%2-4y
32%4-7y
3%7y+
657 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1012
1013
8114
7315
6516
16517
381618
562319
743720
1315521
20712822
905823
1054924
794225
34926
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 853 joined, 431 left.
Caliber
85mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 713 scored99
there now 84 moved on 88. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer483
- Software Engineer Intern181
- Senior Software Engineer78
- Engineering Manager38
- Staff Software Engineer33
- Software Engineer II14
- Staff Engineer8
- Machine Learning Engineer7
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 4% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 7%Exceptional47 people
- 32%Strong227 people
- 49%Solid352 people
- 12%Emerging82 people
- 1%Unproven4 people
712 of the 713 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 274 of the 712 people here with a read sit in them, 38%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
30%Titles that rose128 of 420 classified people
- 30%Rose128 people
- 65%Stayed level275 people
- 4%Fell17 people
420 of the 713 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 420 of the 713 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.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley12.9%
- Carnegie Mellon6.4%
- Stanford4.7%
- UIUC4.6%
- University of Waterloo4.4%
- Columbia4.3%
- MIT4.1%
- UCLA3.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 704 people here with a school on file.
Of the 704 people here with a school on file, 91 list UC Berkeley, 45 list Carnegie Mellon and 33 list Stanford. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
38%have a public GitHub account on their profile
269 of the 712 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
46% of the people who have worked at Stripe and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Stripe
Everyone on the map
- 46%SF Bay Area329 · map 47%
- 43%New York303 · map 33%
- 9%Seattle62 · map 3%
- 0.7%Los Angeles5 · map 6%
- 0.4%Boston3 · map 0.4%
- 0.4%Washington DC3 · map 7%
- 0.8%Somewhere else6
711 of the 713 people who worked at Stripe list a location, and every share here is over those 711.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Stripe: 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 Stripe, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 713 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Stripe: 424 are there now and 289 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Stripe is OpenAI (20 people, 6% of recorded departures), followed by Meta and Anthropic.
- The most common previous employer before Stripe is Meta (47 people), followed by Amazon and Google.
- The median tenure at Stripe is 2y 9m (middle half 1y 6m to 4y 2m).
- Of those who moved on from Stripe, 7% went on to a founder title, 22% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 14% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Stripe is 85 on the 0 to 99 scale (713 scored).
- The most common title held at Stripe is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 704 people here with a school on file, 91 list UC Berkeley (12.9%), then Carnegie Mellon (45). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 46% of the 711 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 38% of the 712 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 420 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 128 rose, 275 stayed level and 17 fell.
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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