Zelcastalumni map

People who leave Yahoo most often go to Google, Meta and Microsoft. 4% found something next. 13% go small. Median stay 2y 2m

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Yahoo's headcount: 214 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 38 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
2140.8% of everyone on the map
There now
73% of the people here
Moved on
20797% of the people here
Median tenure
2y 2mmiddle half 1y 3m to 3y 10m

Put Yahoo 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 BrightRoll. Most leave for Google (8% of recorded departures).

Yahoo171 in · 205 out
5BrightRoll5Microsoft4Google4Lexity3Amazon3Intel3PayPalGoogle168%Meta115%Microsoft105%LinkedIn63%Twitter63%Apple52%Amazon42%eBay42%Splunk42%
27 of 171 recorded arrivals shown, 144 more from 139 other companies66 of 205 recorded departures shown, 139 more to 120 other companies

After Yahoo

  • 4%Founded something7
  • 13%Joined a startup26
  • 28%Joined a big company55
  • 56%Elsewhere

Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.

How long people stay

15%<1y
27%1-2y
35%2-4y
15%4-7y
7%7y+
2y 2m median tenuremiddle half 1y 3m to 3y 10m

162 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

2012 to 2026: 143 joined, 165 left.

Caliber

84mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 214 scored99

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer43
  2. Software Engineer Intern39
  3. Senior Software Engineer18
  4. Software Development Engineer8
  5. Principal Software Engineer7
  6. Software Development Intern6
  7. Tech Lead5
  8. Technical Intern5

8 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 22% of people here.

Behind the median

Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.

  • 4%Exceptional9 people
  • 33%Strong71 people
  • 38%Solid82 people
  • 19%Emerging41 people
  • 5%Unproven11 people

214 of the 214 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.

Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 80 of the 214 people here with a read sit in them, 37%. 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.

Whether a title rose here

The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.

39%Titles that rose69 of 176 classified people

  • 39%Rose69 people
  • 49%Stayed level87 people
  • 11%Fell20 people

176 of the 214 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 176 of the 214 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

  1. UC Berkeley10.3%
  2. UIUC8.4%
  3. Stanford7.0%
  4. UCLA5.6%
  5. Carnegie Mellon5.1%
  6. University of Waterloo4.7%
  7. Cornell4.2%
  8. UC San Diego4.2%

The 8 most listed schools among the 214 people here with a school on file.

Of the 214 people here with a school on file, 22 list UC Berkeley, 18 list UIUC and 15 list Stanford. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

one square is one in a hundred
52%have a public GitHub account on their profile

112 of the 214 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

65% of the people who have worked at Yahoo and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

Yahoo
Everyone on the map
  • 65%SF Bay Area140 · map 47%
  • 24%New York51 · map 33%
  • 8%Los Angeles18 · map 6%
  • 1%Seattle3 · map 3%

All 214 people who worked at Yahoo 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 Yahoo: 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.

Key facts

  • 214 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Yahoo: 7 are there now and 207 have moved on.
  • The most common next employer after Yahoo is Google (16 people, 8% of recorded departures), followed by Meta and Microsoft.
  • The most common previous employer before Yahoo is BrightRoll (5 people), followed by Microsoft and Google.
  • The median tenure at Yahoo is 2y 2m (middle half 1y 3m to 3y 10m).
  • Of those who moved on from Yahoo, 4% went on to a founder title, 13% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 28% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Yahoo is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (214 scored).
  • The most common title held at Yahoo is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
  • Of the 214 people here with a school on file, 22 list UC Berkeley (10.3%), then UIUC (18). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 65% of the 214 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.
  • 52% of the 214 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
  • Of the 176 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 69 rose, 87 stayed level and 20 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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