After Yahoo
- 3%Founded something13
- 17%Joined a startup82
- 41%Joined a big company202
- 40%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Yahoo most often go to Google, Meta and Microsoft. Of them, 17% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 3m
Not Yahoo's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 554 people on a map of 67,181, No. 37 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 5540.8% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 244% of the people here
- Moved on
- 53096% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 3mmiddle half 1y 4m to 3y 10m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Microsoft. Most leave for Google (14% of recorded departures).
66 of 419 recorded arrivals shown, 353 more from 314 other companies211 of 517 recorded departures shown, 306 more to 227 other companies
The Yahoo mafia
13 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 3% of those who moved on, half of them within a month of leaving. The bars cover the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
15%<1y
26%1-2y
35%2-4y
16%4-7y
8%7y+
412 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
133812
663213
562214
614915
427916
636617
284218
233619
13820
142521
122322
141523
3724
5825
<3<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 415 joined, 451 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 266 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer118
- Software Engineer Intern84
- Senior Software Engineer41
- Software Development Engineer35
- Software Development Intern14
- Intern13
- Principal Software Engineer13
- Research Intern13
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 24% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 4%Exceptional11 people
- 31%Strong83 people
- 34%Solid90 people
- 26%Emerging68 people
- 5%Unproven14 people
266 of the 554 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
94 of the 266 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 35%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
39%Titles that rose175 of 453 classified people
- 39%Rose175 people
- 52%Stayed level234 people
- 10%Fell44 people
453 of the 554 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
- Stanford8.9%
- UIUC7.8%
- UC Berkeley7.6%
- Georgia Tech6.9%
- Carnegie Mellon5.8%
- USC5.1%
- UC San Diego4.6%
- Cornell3.6%
The 8 most listed schools among the 550 people here with a school on file.
49 of the 550 people here with a school on file list Stanford, 43 list UIUC and 42 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
49%have a public GitHub account on their profile
272 of the 554 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
71% of the people who have worked at Yahoo and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Yahoo
Everyone on the map
- 71%SF Bay Area392 · map 41%
- 11%New York63 · map 18%
- 5%Seattle29 · map 5%
- 4%Los Angeles21 · map 5%
- 3%Washington DC19 · map 13%
- 0.7%Austin4 · map 0.8%
- 0.5%Champaign-Urbana3
- 4%Somewhere else23
All 554 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 working at Yahoo: 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 Yahoo, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 554 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Yahoo: 24 are there now, 530 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 74 people, 14% of recorded departures. Then Meta and Microsoft.
- Most arrive from Microsoft: 14 people. Then Amazon and Google.
- Median tenure at Yahoo: 2y 3m, middle half 1y 4m to 3y 10m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Yahoo, 3% went to a founder title next, 17% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 41% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 266 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Stanford, listed by 49 of the 550 people here with one on file (8.9%). Then UIUC (43).
- 71% of the 554 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.
- 49% of the 554 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 175 rose, 234 stayed level, 44 fell, out of the 453 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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