After Wish
- 3%Founded something3
- 19%Joined a startup19
- 36%Joined a big company37
- 42%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Wish most often go to Meta, Google and Amazon. Of them, 19% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 5m
Not Wish's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 104 people on a map of 67,181, No. 224 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1040.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 00% of the people here
- Moved on
- 104100% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 5mmiddle half 6m to 2y 8m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from FundThrough. Most leave for Meta (10% of recorded departures).
19 of 99 recorded arrivals shown, 80 more from 73 other companies41 of 107 recorded departures shown, 66 more to 59 other companies
How long people stay
39%<1y
23%1-2y
21%2-4y
13%4-7y
3%7y+
61 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
2013 to 2026: 112 joined, 113 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 81 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern40
- Software Engineer31
- Senior Software Engineer8
- Engineering Manager4
- Staff Software Engineer4
- Data Scientist3
- Infrastructure Engineering Intern3
- Software Engineer II3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 5% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 21%Exceptional or strong17 people
- 57%Solid46 people
- 22%Emerging or unproven18 people
81 of the 104 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
17 of the 81 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 21%. 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.
16%Titles that rose16 of 98 classified people
- 16%Rose16 people
- 80%Stayed level78 people
- 4%Fell4 people
98 of the 104 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
- University of Waterloo51.9%
- UC Berkeley13.5%
- UCLA3.9%
- University of Toronto3.9%
- Lazaridis School of Business & Economics2.9%
- Wilfrid Laurier University2.9%
The 6 most listed schools among the 104 people here with a school on file.
54 of the 104 people here with a school on file list University of Waterloo, 14 list UC Berkeley and 4 list UCLA. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
28%have a public GitHub account on their profile
29 of the 104 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
55% of the people who have worked at Wish and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Wish
Everyone on the map
- 55%SF Bay Area57 · map 41%
- 38%New York39 · map 18%
- 3%Los Angeles3 · map 5%
- 3%Seattle3 · map 5%
All 104 people who worked at Wish 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 Wish: 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 Wish, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 104 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Wish: 0 are there now, 104 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 11 people, 10% of recorded departures. Then Google and Amazon.
- Most arrive from FundThrough: 4 people. Then Amazon and Google.
- Median tenure at Wish: 1y 5m, middle half 6m to 2y 8m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Wish, 3% went to a founder title next, 19% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 36% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 81 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: University of Waterloo, listed by 54 of the 104 people here with one on file (51.9%). Then UC Berkeley (14).
- 55% of the 104 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.
- 28% of the 104 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 16 rose, 78 stayed level, 4 fell, out of the 98 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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