After Watershed
- 29%Joined a startup6
- 71%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Watershed most often go to OpenAI and Midjourney. Of them, 29% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 11m
Not Watershed's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 36 people on a map of 67,181, No. 685 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 360.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1439% of the people here
- Moved on
- 2261% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 11mmiddle half 1y 3m to 3y 4m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for OpenAI (26% of recorded departures).
34 recorded arrivals from 31 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 34 recorded arrivals shown, 34 more from 31 other companies9 of 23 recorded departures shown, 14 more to 13 other companies
How long people stay
9%<1y
46%1-2y
40%2-4y
6%4-7y
0%7y+
35 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
3021
15022
10923
9424
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2021 to 2026: 40 joined, 26 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (25).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer20
- Engineering Manager5
- Senior Software Engineer3
- Software Engineer Intern3
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
38%Titles that rose9 of 24 classified people
- 38%Rose9 people
- 42%Stayed level10 people
- 21%Fell5 people
24 of the 36 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
- MIT13.9%
- Brown8.3%
- Harvard8.3%
- UC Berkeley8.3%
The 4 most listed schools among the 36 people here with a school on file.
5 of the 36 people here with a school on file list MIT, 3 list Brown and 3 list Harvard. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
64%have a public GitHub account on their profile
23 of the 36 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
83% of the people who have worked at Watershed and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Watershed
Everyone on the map
- 83%SF Bay Area30 · map 41%
- 11%New York4 · map 18%
All 36 people who worked at Watershed 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 Watershed: 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 Watershed, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 36 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Watershed: 14 are there now, 22 have moved on.
- Most leave for OpenAI: 6 people, 26% of recorded departures. Then Midjourney.
- Median tenure at Watershed: 1y 11m, middle half 1y 3m to 3y 4m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Watershed, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 29% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and fewer than 3 joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Engineering Manager.
- Top school: MIT, listed by 5 of the 36 people here with one on file (13.9%). Then Brown (3).
- 83% of the 36 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.
- 64% of the 36 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 9 rose, 10 stayed level, 5 fell, out of the 24 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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