After The Trade Desk
- 29%Joined a big company4
- 71%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave The Trade Desk most often go to a long tail of companies. The median tenure is 2y 7m
Not The Trade Desk's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 29 people on a map of 67,181, No. 891 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 29Under 0.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1552% of the people here
- Moved on
- 1448% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 7mmiddle half 1y 1m to 3y 9m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for The Trade Desk yet.
How long people stay
24%<1y
12%1-2y
40%2-4y
24%4-7y
0%7y+
25 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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3<317
0<318
3319
3<320
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7422
6<323
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2015 to 2026: 35 joined, 20 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (19).
Titles held here
- Staff Software Engineer7
- Software Engineer6
- Software Engineer Intern6
- Senior Software Engineer5
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
55%Titles that rose12 of 22 classified people
- 55%Rose12 people
- 45%Stayed level or fell10 people
22 of the 29 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. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- Penn10.3%
- University of Michigan10.3%
The 2 most listed schools among the 29 people here with a school on file.
3 of the 29 people here with a school on file list Penn and 3 list University of Michigan. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer here.
Where they are now
34% of the people who have worked at The Trade Desk and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
The Trade Desk
Everyone on the map
- 34%New York10 · map 18%
- 24%SF Bay Area7 · map 41%
- 14%Los Angeles4 · map 5%
- 14%Seattle4 · map 5%
- 14%Somewhere else4
All 29 people who worked at The Trade Desk 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 Trade Desk: 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 Trade Desk, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 29 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at The Trade Desk: 15 are there now, 14 have moved on.
- Median tenure at The Trade Desk: 2y 7m, middle half 1y 1m to 3y 9m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after The Trade Desk, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, fewer than 3 joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 29% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Staff Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: Penn, listed by 3 of the 29 people here with one on file (10.3%). Then University of Michigan (3).
- 34% of the 29 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.
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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