After Wish
- 4%Founded something3
- 18%Joined a startup14
- 26%Joined a big company20
- 52%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Wish most often go to Meta, Bloomberg and Google. 4% found something next. 18% go small. Median stay 1y 4m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Wish's headcount: 79 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 123 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 790.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 00% of the people here
- Moved on
- 79100% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 4mmiddle half 4m to 2y 8m
Put Wish 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 arrive from LinkedIn. Most leave for Meta (9% of recorded departures).
3 of 72 recorded arrivals shown, 69 more from 63 other companies26 of 81 recorded departures shown, 55 more to 51 other companies
How long people stay
45%<1y
20%1-2y
16%2-4y
14%4-7y
5%7y+
44 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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1113
1014
1015
3216
8217
131318
131019
141220
231721
51722
21023
0124
0025
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 84 joined, 85 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 79 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern30
- Software Engineer25
- Senior Software Engineer5
- Engineering Manager3
4 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.
- 22%Exceptional or strong17 people
- 57%Solid45 people
- 22%Emerging or unproven17 people
79 of the 79 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 17 of the 79 people here with a read sit in them, 22%. 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.
15%Titles that rose11 of 74 classified people
- 15%Rose11 people
- 85%Stayed level or fell63 people
74 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 74 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. A direction 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.
Where they studied
- University of Waterloo55.7%
- UC Berkeley12.7%
- UCLA5.1%
- Lazaridis School of Business & Economics3.8%
- University of Toronto3.8%
- Wilfrid Laurier University3.8%
The 6 most listed schools among the 79 people here with a school on file.
Of the 79 people here with a school on file, 44 list University of Waterloo, 10 list UC Berkeley and 4 list UCLA. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
27%have a public GitHub account on their profile
21 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
48% of the people who have worked at Wish and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Wish
Everyone on the map
- 48%SF Bay Area38 · map 47%
- 46%New York36 · map 33%
- 4%Los Angeles3 · map 6%
All 79 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 they worked at Wish: 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 Wish, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 79 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Wish: 0 are there now and 79 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Wish is Meta (7 people, 9% of recorded departures), followed by Bloomberg and Google.
- The most common previous employer before Wish is LinkedIn (3 people).
- The median tenure at Wish is 1y 4m (middle half 4m to 2y 8m).
- Of those who moved on from Wish, 4% went on to a founder title, 18% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 26% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Wish is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (79 scored).
- The most common title held at Wish is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 79 people here with a school on file, 44 list University of Waterloo (55.7%), then UC Berkeley (10). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 48% of the 79 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 27% of the 79 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
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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