Zelcastalumni map

People who leave Uber most often go to Meta, Google and Aurora. 7% found something next. 18% go small. Median stay 2y 9m

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Uber's headcount: 553 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 13 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
5532.1% of everyone on the map
There now
13424% of the people here
Moved on
41976% of the people here
Median tenure
2y 9mmiddle half 1y 5m to 4y 6m

Put Uber 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. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Meta (6% of recorded departures).

Uber544 in · 433 out
36Amazon31Meta22Google16Microsoft12LinkedIn9Amazon Web Services8Capital One7Apple7Postmates by UberMeta266%Google225%Aurora102%Amazon92%Palantir Technologies82%Stripe82%Databricks72%Microsoft72%Robinhood72%
148 of 544 recorded arrivals shown, 396 more from 321 other companies104 of 433 recorded departures shown, 329 more to 254 other companies

After Uber

  • 7%Founded something31
  • 18%Joined a startup76
  • 17%Joined a big company69
  • 58%Elsewhere

Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.

The Uber mafia

31 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 7% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars are the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders count in the total.

How long people stay

13%<1y
22%1-2y
32%2-4y
27%4-7y
7%7y+
2y 9m median tenuremiddle half 1y 5m to 4y 6m

445 stays with both a start and an end on the record.

Who comes and goes, by year

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joined left2026 is a partial year

2012 to 2026: 627 joined, 493 left.

Caliber

84mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 553 scored99

there now 83 moved on 85. The people who left score higher than the people still there.

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer178
  2. Software Engineer Intern139
  3. Senior Software Engineer117
  4. Software Engineer II61
  5. Staff Software Engineer34
  6. Engineering Manager20
  7. Engineering Manager II16
  8. Software Engineer I14

8 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 7% of people here.

Behind the median

Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.

  • 6%Exceptional34 people
  • 30%Strong165 people
  • 48%Solid263 people
  • 14%Emerging80 people
  • 2%Unproven10 people

552 of the 553 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.

Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 199 of the 552 people here with a read sit in them, 36%. A tier is the band an Eng Scorer 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.

44%Titles that rose194 of 442 classified people

  • 44%Rose194 people
  • 51%Stayed level225 people
  • 5%Fell23 people

442 of the 553 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 who recorded one title here and then left, it is 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. A title that matches no rung is left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely, being a different ladder. That leaves 442 of the 553 people here classified, and it leans towards people who have left: someone still here on a single recorded title has nothing to be measured against.

Where they studied

  1. UC Berkeley15.6%
  2. Stanford5.7%
  3. UIUC5.0%
  4. University of Waterloo4.8%
  5. UCLA4.4%
  6. Carnegie Mellon3.3%
  7. Georgia Tech2.9%
  8. Cornell2.8%

The 8 most listed schools among the 546 people here with a school on file.

Of the 546 people here with a school on file, 85 list UC Berkeley, 31 list Stanford and 27 list UIUC. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

one square is one in a hundred
45%have a public GitHub account on their profile

250 of the 552 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check did not find reads the same as no account, so this is a floor rather than a census.

Across the 325 companies on the map that can show this figure, the median is 38%.

Where they are now

65% of the people who have worked at Uber and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

Uber
Everyone on the map
  • 65%SF Bay Area358 · map 47%
  • 27%New York147 · map 33%
  • 5%Los Angeles26 · map 6%
  • 2%Seattle10 · map 3%
  • 0.7%Washington DC4 · map 7%
  • 1%Somewhere else7

552 of the 553 people who worked at Uber list a location, and every share here is over those 552.

Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Uber: 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.

Key facts

  • 553 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Uber: 134 are there now and 419 have moved on.
  • The most common next employer after Uber is Meta (26 people, 6% of recorded departures), followed by Google and Aurora.
  • The most common previous employer before Uber is Amazon (36 people), followed by Meta and Google.
  • The median tenure at Uber is 2y 9m (middle half 1y 5m to 4y 6m).
  • Of those who moved on from Uber, 7% went on to a founder title, 18% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 17% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Uber is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (553 scored).
  • The most common title held at Uber is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
  • Of the 546 people here with a school on file, 85 list UC Berkeley (15.6%), then Stanford (31). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 65% of the 552 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.
  • 45% of the 552 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
  • Of the 442 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 194 rose, 225 stayed level and 23 fell.

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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