After Toast
- 31%Joined a startup10
- 25%Joined a big company8
- 44%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Toast most often go to Amazon. Of them, 31% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 2m
Not Toast's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 46 people on a map of 67,181, No. 528 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 460.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1430% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3270% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 2mmiddle half 4m to 3y 6m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Amazon (9% of recorded departures).
How long people stay
34%<1y
11%1-2y
37%2-4y
17%4-7y
0%7y+
35 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
3315
6516
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5520
10521
6<322
3<323
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2015 to 2026: 48 joined, 34 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 30 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer9
- Software Engineer9
- Software Engineer Intern8
- Software Engineer II6
- Staff Software Engineer4
- Software Engineer Co-Op3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 11% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 20%Exceptional or strong6 people
- 47%Solid14 people
- 20%Emerging6 people
- 13%Unproven4 people
30 of the 46 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
6 of the 30 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 20%. 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.
35%Titles that rose12 of 34 classified people
- 35%Rose12 people
- 65%Stayed level or fell22 people
34 of the 46 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
- University of Waterloo20.5%
- Georgia Tech11.4%
- UC Berkeley6.8%
The 3 most listed schools among the 44 people here with a school on file.
9 of the 44 people here with a school on file list University of Waterloo, 5 list Georgia Tech and 3 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
30%have a public GitHub account on their profile
14 of the 46 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
43% of the people who have worked at Toast and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
Toast
Everyone on the map
- 43%New York20 · map 18%
- 22%SF Bay Area10 · map 41%
- 13%Boston6 · map 2%
- 9%Washington DC4 · map 13%
- 13%Somewhere else6
All 46 people who worked at Toast 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 Toast: 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 Toast, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 46 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Toast: 14 are there now, 32 have moved on.
- Most leave for Amazon: 3 people, 9% of recorded departures.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 3 people.
- Median tenure at Toast: 2y 2m, middle half 4m to 3y 6m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Toast, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 31% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 25% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 30 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: University of Waterloo, listed by 9 of the 44 people here with one on file (20.4%). Then Georgia Tech (5).
- 43% of the 46 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.
- 30% of the 46 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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