After Tencent
- 5%Joined a startup5
- 50%Joined a big company52
- 45%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Tencent most often go to Meta, Amazon and Google. The median tenure is 11m
Not Tencent's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 125 people on a map of 67,181, No. 192 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1250.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 43% of the people here
- Moved on
- 12197% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 11mmiddle half 3m to 1y 10m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Microsoft. Most leave for Meta (12% of recorded departures).
7 of 65 recorded arrivals shown, 58 more from 55 other companies48 of 106 recorded departures shown, 58 more to 54 other companies
How long people stay
51%<1y
24%1-2y
20%2-4y
6%4-7y
0%7y+
51 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3<312
3<313
<3314
6615
4316
<3<317
161418
142019
271620
342821
41222
<3623
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 122 joined, 119 left.
Caliber
81mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 45 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern19
- Software Engineer17
- Research Intern9
- Backend Software Engineer Intern4
- Machine Learning Engineer4
- Senior Software Engineer3
- Software Engineer Internship3
- Technical Project Intern3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 46% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 22%Strong10 people
- 29%Solid13 people
- 31%Emerging14 people
- 18%Unproven8 people
45 of the 125 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
10 of the 45 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 22%. 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.
22%Titles that rose20 of 92 classified people
- 22%Rose20 people
- 66%Stayed level61 people
- 12%Fell11 people
92 of the 125 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
- Carnegie Mellon28.8%
- UC Berkeley10.4%
- USC10.4%
- Stanford5.6%
- Tsinghua5.6%
- UIUC5.6%
- Georgia Tech4.8%
- Shanghai Jiao Tong4.8%
The 8 most listed schools among the 125 people here with a school on file.
36 of the 125 people here with a school on file list Carnegie Mellon, 13 list UC Berkeley and 13 list USC. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
21%have a public GitHub account on their profile
26 of the 125 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
66% of the people who have worked at Tencent and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Tencent
Everyone on the map
- 66%SF Bay Area82 · map 41%
- 10%New York13 · map 18%
- 6%Seattle8 · map 5%
- 3%Los Angeles4 · map 5%
- 2%Pittsburgh3 · map 0.4%
- 12%Somewhere else15
All 125 people who worked at Tencent 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 Tencent: 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 Tencent, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 125 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Tencent: 4 are there now, 121 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 13 people, 12% of recorded departures. Then Amazon and Google.
- Most arrive from Microsoft: 4 people. Then Alibaba Group.
- Median tenure at Tencent: 11m, middle half 3m to 1y 10m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Tencent, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 5% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 50% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 81 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 45 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: Carnegie Mellon, listed by 36 of the 125 people here with one on file (28.8%). Then UC Berkeley (13).
- 66% of the 125 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.
- 21% of the 125 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 20 rose, 61 stayed level, 11 fell, out of the 92 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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