After Wayfair
- 4%Founded something3
- 15%Joined a startup11
- 22%Joined a big company16
- 59%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Wayfair most often go to Amazon, Meta and Google. 4% found something next. 15% go small. Median stay 1y 7m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Wayfair's headcount: 79 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 122 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 790.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 23% of the people here
- Moved on
- 7797% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 7mmiddle half 1y to 2y 10m
Put Wayfair 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 leave for Amazon (7% of recorded departures).
63 recorded arrivals from 62 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
Amazon57%0 of 63 recorded arrivals shown, 63 more from 62 other companies17 of 76 recorded departures shown, 59 more to 56 other companies
How long people stay
23%<1y
35%1-2y
32%2-4y
11%4-7y
0%7y+
57 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1112
1113
2014
4315
9316
8817
14818
211019
41620
81121
8922
3723
3324
0425
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 86 joined, 84 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 79 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer19
- Software Engineer Intern16
- Senior Software Engineer10
- Software Engineer I7
- Software Engineer II7
- Senior Engineering Manager5
- Software Engineer Co-Op5
- Engineering Manager4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 25% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 11%Exceptional or strong9 people
- 46%Solid36 people
- 43%Emerging or unproven34 people
79 of the 79 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 9 of the 79 people here with a read sit in them, 11%. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
34%Titles that rose25 of 73 classified people
- 34%Rose25 people
- 58%Stayed level42 people
- 8%Fell6 people
73 of the 79 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 73 of the 79 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
- Northeastern15.6%
- UC Berkeley6.5%
- Harvard5.2%
- University of Waterloo5.2%
- USC5.2%
- Boston University3.9%
- Cornell3.9%
- Tufts3.9%
The 8 most listed schools among the 77 people here with a school on file.
Of the 77 people here with a school on file, 12 list Northeastern, 5 list UC Berkeley and 4 list Harvard. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
42%have a public GitHub account on their profile
33 of the 79 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
53% of the people who have worked at Wayfair and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Wayfair
Everyone on the map
- 53%New York42 · map 33%
- 33%SF Bay Area26 · map 47%
- 5%Seattle4 · map 3%
- 4%Los Angeles3 · map 6%
- 5%Somewhere else4
All 79 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 they worked at Wayfair: 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.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Wayfair, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 79 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Wayfair: 2 are there now and 77 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Wayfair is Amazon (5 people, 7% of recorded departures), followed by Meta and Google.
- The median tenure at Wayfair is 1y 7m (middle half 1y to 2y 10m).
- Of those who moved on from Wayfair, 4% went on to a founder title, 15% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 22% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Wayfair is 82 on the 0 to 99 scale (79 scored).
- The most common title held at Wayfair is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 77 people here with a school on file, 12 list Northeastern (15.6%), then UC Berkeley (5). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 53% of the 79 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 42% of the 79 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 73 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 25 rose, 42 stayed level and 6 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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