After Wayfair
- 3%Founded something5
- 17%Joined a startup29
- 35%Joined a big company58
- 45%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Wayfair most often go to Amazon, Meta and Google. Of them, 17% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 10m
Not Wayfair's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 182 people on a map of 67,181, No. 130 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1820.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 95% of the people here
- Moved on
- 17395% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 10mmiddle half 1y to 3y
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Apple. Most leave for Amazon (8% of recorded departures).
3 of 150 recorded arrivals shown, 147 more from 135 other companies43 of 172 recorded departures shown, 129 more to 120 other companies
How long people stay
24%<1y
28%1-2y
35%2-4y
11%4-7y
2%7y+
147 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3<312
4<313
7314
9515
14916
141117
341418
422019
163120
162421
202822
91523
111724
31225
<3<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 201 joined, 192 left.
Caliber
78mediantop 10%86
0Eng Scorer caliber, 98 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer46
- Senior Software Engineer22
- Software Engineer Intern22
- Software Engineer II21
- Software Engineer I14
- Software Engineer Co-Op7
- Senior Engineering Manager6
- Engineering Manager5
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 19% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 9%Exceptional or strong9 people
- 36%Solid35 people
- 48%Emerging47 people
- 7%Unproven7 people
98 of the 182 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
9 of the 98 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 9%. 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.
36%Titles that rose57 of 158 classified people
- 36%Rose57 people
- 58%Stayed level92 people
- 6%Fell9 people
158 of the 182 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
- Northeastern12.8%
- Georgia Tech7.2%
- Boston University5.6%
- Carnegie Mellon4.4%
- Cornell4.4%
- Harvard4.4%
- UIUC4.4%
- MIT3.9%
The 8 most listed schools among the 180 people here with a school on file.
23 of the 180 people here with a school on file list Northeastern, 13 list Georgia Tech and 10 list Boston University. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
34%have a public GitHub account on their profile
62 of the 182 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
35% of the people who have worked at Wayfair and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
Wayfair
Everyone on the map
- 35%New York63 · map 18%
- 26%SF Bay Area47 · map 41%
- 15%Boston28 · map 2%
- 7%Seattle12 · map 5%
- 5%Washington DC9 · map 13%
- 3%Los Angeles5 · map 5%
- 2%Atlanta4 · map 1%
- 2%Austin3 · map 0.8%
- 6%Somewhere else11
All 182 people who worked at Wayfair 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 Wayfair: 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 Wayfair, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 182 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Wayfair: 9 are there now, 173 have moved on.
- Most leave for Amazon: 13 people, 8% of recorded departures. Then Meta and Google.
- Most arrive from Apple: 3 people.
- Median tenure at Wayfair: 1y 10m, middle half 1y to 3y.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Wayfair, 3% went to a founder title next, 17% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 35% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 78 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 98 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: Northeastern, listed by 23 of the 180 people here with one on file (12.8%). Then Georgia Tech (13).
- 35% of the 182 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.
- 34% of the 182 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 57 rose, 92 stayed level, 9 fell, out of the 158 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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