After Tinder
- 18%Founded something3
- 29%Joined a big company5
- 53%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Tinder most often go to a long tail of companies. 18% found something next. Median stay 3y 11m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Tinder's headcount: 24 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 412 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 240.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 729% of the people here
- Moved on
- 1771% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 11mmiddle half 1y 11m to 4y 7m
Put Tinder 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.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Tinder yet.
How long people stay
9%<1y
18%1-2y
23%2-4y
50%4-7y
0%7y+
22 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
0012
0013
2014
1015
3216
2117
2218
4119
1220
3121
3322
0323
4224
1225
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 26 joined, 19 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (24).
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer4
- Engineering Manager II3
- Software Engineer3
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
Where they studied
- Carnegie Mellon13.0%
The one school among the 23 people here with a school on file.
Of the 23 people here with a school on file, 3 list Carnegie Mellon.
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 than that here.
Where they are now
50% of the people who have worked at Tinder and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Tinder
Everyone on the map
- 50%SF Bay Area12 · map 47%
- 38%Los Angeles9 · map 6%
- 13%Somewhere else3
All 24 people who worked at Tinder 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 Tinder: 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 Tinder, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 24 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Tinder: 7 are there now and 17 have moved on.
- The median tenure at Tinder is 3y 11m (middle half 1y 11m to 4y 7m).
- Of those who moved on from Tinder, 18% went on to a founder title, fewer than 3 joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 29% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The most common title held at Tinder is Senior Software Engineer, then Engineering Manager II.
- Of the 23 people here with a school on file, 3 list Carnegie Mellon (13.0%). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 50% of the 24 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
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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