After Uber
- 6%Founded something48
- 18%Joined a startup150
- 28%Joined a big company237
- 48%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Uber most often go to Meta, Google and Aurora. Of them, 6% found something next and 18% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 4m
Not Uber's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 1,157 people on a map of 67,181, No. 15 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1,1571.7% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 32728% of the people here
- Moved on
- 83072% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 4mmiddle half 1y 3m to 4y 3m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Meta (9% of recorded departures).
310 of 1,097 recorded arrivals shown, 787 more from 581 other companies257 of 860 recorded departures shown, 603 more to 407 other companies
The Uber mafia
48 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 6% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars cover the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
15%<1y
25%1-2y
30%2-4y
23%4-7y
7%7y+
974 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3<312
7013
33<314
911615
1575616
1018017
1679418
18515719
8319320
11112921
1188022
756723
684124
764025
271926
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 1,301 joined, 974 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 632 scored99
there now 83 moved on 84. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer343
- Software Engineer Intern233
- Senior Software Engineer227
- Software Engineer II118
- Staff Software Engineer78
- Machine Learning Engineer47
- Software Engineer I27
- Engineering Manager26
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 8% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 6%Exceptional37 people
- 28%Strong178 people
- 44%Solid277 people
- 19%Emerging121 people
- 3%Unproven18 people
631 of the 1,157 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
215 of the 631 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 34%. 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.
46%Titles that rose393 of 861 classified people
- 46%Rose393 people
- 48%Stayed level417 people
- 6%Fell51 people
861 of the 1,157 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
- UC Berkeley12.1%
- Stanford7.1%
- Carnegie Mellon7.0%
- Georgia Tech4.6%
- UIUC4.5%
- UCLA4.4%
- University of Waterloo3.8%
- Cornell3.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 1,149 people here with a school on file.
139 of the 1,149 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 81 list Stanford and 80 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
43%have a public GitHub account on their profile
500 of the 1,156 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
68% of the people who have worked at Uber and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Uber
Everyone on the map
- 68%SF Bay Area782 · map 41%
- 15%New York178 · map 18%
- 5%Seattle55 · map 5%
- 3%Los Angeles37 · map 5%
- 2%Washington DC28 · map 13%
- 0.6%Pittsburgh7 · map 0.4%
- 0.5%Chicago6 · map 0.6%
- 0.4%Atlanta5 · map 1%
- 5%Somewhere else58
1,156 of the 1,157 people who worked at Uber list a location, and every share here is over those 1,156.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Uber: 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 Uber, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 1,157 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Uber: 327 are there now, 830 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 75 people, 9% of recorded departures. Then Google and Aurora.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 72 people. Then Meta and Google.
- Median tenure at Uber: 2y 4m, middle half 1y 3m to 4y 3m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Uber, 6% went to a founder title next, 18% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 28% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 632 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 139 of the 1,149 people here with one on file (12.1%). Then Stanford (81).
- 68% of the 1,156 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.
- 43% of the 1,156 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 393 rose, 417 stayed level, 51 fell, out of the 861 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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