After The New York Times
- 4%Founded something3
- 18%Joined a startup12
- 26%Joined a big company18
- 51%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave The New York Times most often go to Google. Of them, 4% found something next and 18% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 8m
Not The New York Times's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 97 people on a map of 67,181, No. 243 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 970.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 2930% of the people here
- Moved on
- 6870% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 8mmiddle half 1y 4m to 4y
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Google (11% of recorded departures).
88 recorded arrivals from 82 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 88 recorded arrivals shown, 88 more from 82 other companies8 of 72 recorded departures shown, 64 more to 59 other companies
How long people stay
19%<1y
17%1-2y
38%2-4y
19%4-7y
7%7y+
86 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 100 joined, 72 left.
Caliber
79mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 65 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer29
- Senior Software Engineer24
- Staff Software Engineer7
- Associate Software Engineer4
- Engineering Manager4
- Software Engineer Intern4
- Technology Intern4
- Data Engineer3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 6% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 14%Exceptional or strong9 people
- 35%Solid23 people
- 51%Emerging or unproven33 people
65 of the 97 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
9 of the 65 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 14%. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
56%Titles that rose41 of 73 classified people
- 56%Rose41 people
- 38%Stayed level28 people
- 5%Fell4 people
73 of the 97 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
- Columbia9.5%
- Brown7.4%
- Georgia Tech6.3%
- NYU6.3%
- Stanford6.3%
- Princeton4.2%
- UC Berkeley4.2%
- Cornell3.2%
The 8 most listed schools among the 95 people here with a school on file.
9 of the 95 people here with a school on file list Columbia, 7 list Brown and 6 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
56%have a public GitHub account on their profile
54 of the 97 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
63% of the people who have worked at The New York Times and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
The New York Times
Everyone on the map
- 63%New York61 · map 18%
- 24%SF Bay Area23 · map 41%
- 4%Washington DC4 · map 13%
- 9%Somewhere else9
All 97 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 working at The New York Times: 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 The New York Times, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 97 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at The New York Times: 29 are there now, 68 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 8 people, 11% of recorded departures.
- Median tenure at The New York Times: 2y 8m, middle half 1y 4m to 4y.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after The New York Times, 4% went to a founder title next, 18% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 26% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 79 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 65 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: Columbia, listed by 9 of the 95 people here with one on file (9.5%). Then Brown (7).
- 63% of the 97 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 18% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 56% of the 97 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 41 rose, 28 stayed level, 4 fell, out of the 73 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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