After Yelp
- 3%Founded something7
- 17%Joined a startup38
- 38%Joined a big company85
- 42%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Yelp most often go to Google, Meta and Airbnb. Of them, 3% found something next and 17% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 6m
Not Yelp's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 245 people on a map of 67,181, No. 96 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2450.4% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 104% of the people here
- Moved on
- 23596% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 6mmiddle half 1y 4m to 4y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Google (13% of recorded departures).
41 of 228 recorded arrivals shown, 187 more from 176 other companies93 of 232 recorded departures shown, 139 more to 115 other companies
How long people stay
13%<1y
25%1-2y
36%2-4y
19%4-7y
8%7y+
167 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: 262 joined, 258 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 141 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer98
- Software Engineer Intern84
- Senior Software Engineer19
- Engineering Manager10
- Machine Learning Engineer9
- Account Executive7
- Technical Lead7
- Engineering Intern4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 14% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 4%Exceptional6 people
- 28%Strong40 people
- 43%Solid61 people
- 17%Emerging24 people
- 7%Unproven10 people
141 of the 245 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
46 of the 141 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 33%. 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.
38%Titles that rose81 of 214 classified people
- 38%Rose81 people
- 57%Stayed level123 people
- 5%Fell10 people
214 of the 245 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
- UC Berkeley20.3%
- University of Waterloo9.5%
- Stanford7.0%
- MIT6.6%
- Cornell3.7%
- Georgia Tech3.7%
- UIUC3.3%
- USC2.9%
The 8 most listed schools among the 242 people here with a school on file.
49 of the 242 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 23 list University of Waterloo and 17 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
63%have a public GitHub account on their profile
154 of the 245 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
73% of the people who have worked at Yelp and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Yelp
Everyone on the map
- 73%SF Bay Area178 · map 41%
- 16%New York40 · map 18%
- 3%Los Angeles7 · map 5%
- 2%Washington DC6 · map 13%
- 2%Seattle5 · map 5%
- 4%Somewhere else9
All 245 people who worked at Yelp 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 Yelp: 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 Yelp, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 245 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Yelp: 10 are there now, 235 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 31 people, 13% of recorded departures. Then Meta and Airbnb.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 11 people. Then Google and Microsoft.
- Median tenure at Yelp: 2y 6m, middle half 1y 4m to 4y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Yelp, 3% went to a founder title next, 17% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 38% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 141 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 49 of the 242 people here with one on file (20.3%). Then University of Waterloo (23).
- 73% of the 245 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.
- 63% of the 245 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 81 rose, 123 stayed level, 10 fell, out of the 214 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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