After The New York Times
- 15%Joined a startup6
- 15%Joined a big company6
- 70%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave The New York Times most often go to Google. 15% go small. Median stay 2y 10m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not The New York Times's headcount: 57 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 162 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 570.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1730% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4070% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 10mmiddle half 1y 8m to 4y 1m
Put The New York Times 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 Google (9% of recorded departures).
54 recorded arrivals from 49 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 54 recorded arrivals shown, 54 more from 49 other companies4 of 44 recorded departures shown, 40 more to 39 other companies
How long people stay
15%<1y
17%1-2y
42%2-4y
19%4-7y
8%7y+
53 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1012
3113
1214
2115
6316
2217
5318
6619
12220
7821
7622
5523
2524
0125
2026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 61 joined, 45 left.
Caliber
81mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 57 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer18
- Senior Software Engineer15
- Staff Software Engineer7
- Engineering Manager4
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 7% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 16%Strong9 people
- 35%Solid20 people
- 49%Emerging28 people
57 of the 57 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 9 of the 57 people here with a read sit in them, 16%. 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.
64%Titles that rose27 of 42 classified people
- 64%Rose27 people
- 36%Stayed level or fell15 people
42 of the 57 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 42 of the 57 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. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- Columbia12.7%
- Brown9.1%
The 2 most listed schools among the 55 people here with a school on file.
Of the 55 people here with a school on file, 7 list Columbia and 5 list Brown. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
65%have a public GitHub account on their profile
37 of the 57 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
77% of the people who have worked at The New York Times and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
The New York Times
Everyone on the map
- 77%New York44 · map 33%
- 19%SF Bay Area11 · map 47%
All 57 people who worked at The New York Times 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 The New York Times: 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 The New York Times, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 57 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at The New York Times: 17 are there now and 40 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after The New York Times is Google (4 people, 9% of recorded departures).
- The median tenure at The New York Times is 2y 10m (middle half 1y 8m to 4y 1m).
- Of those who moved on from The New York Times, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 15% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 15% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at The New York Times is 81 on the 0 to 99 scale (57 scored).
- The most common title held at The New York Times is Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Of the 55 people here with a school on file, 7 list Columbia (12.7%), then Brown (5). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 77% of the 57 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 65% of the 57 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
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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