After The Washington Post
- 17%Joined a startup7
- 24%Joined a big company10
- 60%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave The Washington Post most often go to Capital One. Of them, 17% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 4m
Not The Washington Post's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 51 people on a map of 67,181, No. 470 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 510.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1020% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4180% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 4mmiddle half 1y to 4y 5m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Mapbox. Most leave for Capital One (7% of recorded departures).
3 of 48 recorded arrivals shown, 45 more from 45 other companies3 of 42 recorded departures shown, 39 more to 37 other companies
How long people stay
19%<1y
21%1-2y
28%2-4y
23%4-7y
9%7y+
43 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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4<315
3<316
4<317
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3419
<3<320
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3322
3623
5324
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 47 joined, 39 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (18).
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer14
- Software Engineer6
- Software Engineer Intern6
- Principal Software Engineer4
- Applied Machine Learning Scientist II3
- Software Developer3
- Technical Architect3
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 8% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
38%Titles that rose16 of 42 classified people
- 38%Rose16 people
- 55%Stayed level23 people
- 7%Fell3 people
42 of the 51 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
- University of Maryland10.0%
- George Washington8.0%
- Stanford8.0%
- Georgetown6.0%
- Georgia Tech6.0%
The 5 most listed schools among the 50 people here with a school on file.
5 of the 50 people here with a school on file list University of Maryland, 4 list George Washington and 4 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
41%have a public GitHub account on their profile
21 of the 51 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
57% of the people who have worked at The Washington Post and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
The Washington Post
Everyone on the map
- 57%Washington DC29 · map 13%
- 16%New York8 · map 18%
- 14%SF Bay Area7 · map 41%
- 6%Boston3 · map 2%
- 8%Somewhere else4
All 51 people who worked at The Washington Post 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 Washington Post: 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 Washington Post, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 51 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at The Washington Post: 10 are there now, 41 have moved on.
- Most leave for Capital One: 3 people, 7% of recorded departures.
- Most arrive from Mapbox: 3 people.
- Median tenure at The Washington Post: 2y 4m, middle half 1y to 4y 5m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after The Washington Post, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 17% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 24% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: University of Maryland, listed by 5 of the 50 people here with one on file (10.0%). Then George Washington (4).
- 57% of the 51 people here who list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 41% of the 51 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 16 rose, 23 stayed level, 3 fell, out of the 42 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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