After Tencent
- 12%Joined a startup4
- 24%Joined a big company8
- 65%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Tencent most often go to Meta. 12% go small
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Tencent's headcount: 36 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 281 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 360.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 00% of the people here
- Moved on
- 36100% of the people here
- Median tenure
- –only 13 stays here have both a start and an end on the record, too few to take a median from
Put Tencent 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 leave for Meta (11% of recorded departures).
19 recorded arrivals from 18 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 19 recorded arrivals shown, 19 more from 18 other companies4 of 36 recorded departures shown, 32 more to 28 other companies
How long people stay
62%<1y
31%1-2y
8%2-4y
0%4-7y
0%7y+
13 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1012
1113
0114
2215
1116
2017
10818
4819
8620
6621
1222
0123
0024
2225
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 38 joined, 38 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%91
0Eng Scorer caliber, 36 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern6
- Software Engineer5
- Research Intern4
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 47% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 25%Strong9 people
- 36%Solid13 people
- 25%Emerging9 people
- 14%Unproven5 people
36 of the 36 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 9 of the 36 people here with a read sit in them, 25%. 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.
23%Titles that rose7 of 30 classified people
- 23%Rose7 people
- 63%Stayed level19 people
- 13%Fell4 people
30 of the 36 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 30 of the 36 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 Berkeley19.4%
- Carnegie Mellon16.7%
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China11.1%
- Johns Hopkins8.3%
- UIUC8.3%
- USC8.3%
The 6 most listed schools among the 36 people here with a school on file.
Of the 36 people here with a school on file, 7 list UC Berkeley, 6 list Carnegie Mellon and 4 list University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
28%have a public GitHub account on their profile
10 of the 36 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
64% of the people who have worked at Tencent and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Tencent
Everyone on the map
- 64%SF Bay Area23 · map 47%
- 22%New York8 · map 33%
- 11%Los Angeles4 · map 6%
All 36 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 they worked at Tencent: 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 Tencent, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 36 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Tencent: 0 are there now and 36 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Tencent is Meta (4 people, 11% of recorded departures).
- Of those who moved on from Tencent, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 12% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 24% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Tencent is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (36 scored).
- The most common title held at Tencent is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 36 people here with a school on file, 7 list UC Berkeley (19.4%), then Carnegie Mellon (6). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 64% of the 36 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.
- 28% of the 36 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 30 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 7 rose, 19 stayed level and 4 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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