After Yandex
- 17%Joined a startup3
- 39%Joined a big company7
- 44%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Yandex most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 17% go somewhere small
Not Yandex's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 21 people on a map of 67,181, No. 1,267 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 21Under 0.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 15% of the people here
- Moved on
- 2095% of the people here
- Median tenure
- –fewer than 20 stays here have both a start and an end on the record, too few for a median
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Yandex yet.
How long people stay
22%<1y
33%1-2y
17%2-4y
28%4-7y
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18 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: 17 joined, 21 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (9).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer9
- Software Developer3
- Software Engineer Intern3
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 52% of people here.
Where they studied
- Lomonosov Moscow State University19.1%
- Yandex School of Data Analysis19.1%
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology14.3%
- Stanford14.3%
The 4 most listed schools among the 21 people here with a school on file.
4 of the 21 people here with a school on file list Lomonosov Moscow State University, 4 list Yandex School of Data Analysis and 3 list Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer here.
Where they are now
67% of the people who have worked at Yandex and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Yandex
Everyone on the map
- 67%SF Bay Area14 · map 41%
- 33%Somewhere else7
All 21 people who worked at Yandex 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 Yandex: 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 Yandex, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 21 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Yandex: 1 are there now, 20 have moved on.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Yandex, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 17% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 39% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Developer.
- Top school: Lomonosov Moscow State University, listed by 4 of the 21 people here with one on file (19.1%). Then Yandex School of Data Analysis (4).
- 67% of the 21 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.
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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