After Thumbtack
- 10%Founded something4
- 15%Joined a startup6
- 26%Joined a big company10
- 49%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Thumbtack most often go to Meta. Of them, 10% found something next and 15% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 8m
Not Thumbtack's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 62 people on a map of 67,181, No. 386 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 620.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 2235% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4065% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 8mmiddle half 1y 7m to 4y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Meta (13% of recorded departures).
How long people stay
9%<1y
22%1-2y
40%2-4y
27%4-7y
2%7y+
55 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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6<315
6316
3<317
7318
101019
6720
10521
6322
3323
5324
<3<325
0<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2014 to 2026: 65 joined, 43 left.
Caliber
80mediantop 10%86
0Eng Scorer caliber, 38 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer35
- Senior Software Engineer9
- Software Engineer Intern8
- Staff Software Engineer5
- Senior Engineering Manager3
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 13% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 11%Strong4 people
- 42%Solid16 people
- 39%Emerging15 people
- 8%Unproven3 people
38 of the 62 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
4 of the 38 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 11%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
40%Titles that rose19 of 47 classified people
- 40%Rose19 people
- 60%Stayed level or fell28 people
47 of the 62 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
- UC Berkeley17.7%
- Carnegie Mellon6.5%
- MIT6.5%
- Georgia Tech4.8%
- Stanford4.8%
- UC San Diego4.8%
- University of Washington4.8%
The 7 most listed schools among the 62 people here with a school on file.
11 of the 62 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 4 list Carnegie Mellon and 4 list MIT. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
60%have a public GitHub account on their profile
37 of the 62 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
65% of the people who have worked at Thumbtack and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Thumbtack
Everyone on the map
- 65%SF Bay Area40 · map 41%
- 13%New York8 · map 18%
- 8%Los Angeles5 · map 5%
- 5%Washington DC3 · map 13%
- 10%Somewhere else6
All 62 people who worked at Thumbtack 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 Thumbtack: 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 Thumbtack, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 62 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Thumbtack: 22 are there now, 40 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 5 people, 13% of recorded departures.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 3 people.
- Median tenure at Thumbtack: 2y 8m, middle half 1y 7m to 4y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Thumbtack, 10% went to a founder title next, 15% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 26% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 80 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 38 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 11 of the 62 people here with one on file (17.7%). Then Carnegie Mellon (4).
- 65% of the 62 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 41% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 60% of the 62 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
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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