After Yelp
- 3%Founded something4
- 16%Joined a startup19
- 27%Joined a big company32
- 53%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Yelp most often go to Google, Meta and Uber. 3% found something next. 16% go small. Median stay 2y 4m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Yelp's headcount: 122 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 77 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1220.5% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 11% of the people here
- Moved on
- 12199% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 4mmiddle half 1y 1m to 3y 11m
Put Yelp 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 Amazon. Most leave for Google (9% of recorded departures).
8 of 115 recorded arrivals shown, 107 more from 100 other companies30 of 121 recorded departures shown, 91 more to 81 other companies
How long people stay
19%<1y
22%1-2y
36%2-4y
20%4-7y
3%7y+
74 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
3412
9213
9814
201615
91116
331817
211818
151319
71620
01221
11122
1123
0024
0125
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 128 joined, 131 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%95
0Eng Scorer caliber, 122 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern50
- Software Engineer43
- Senior Software Engineer9
- Account Executive6
- Engineering Manager5
- Technical Lead3
6 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%Exceptional5 people
- 31%Strong38 people
- 43%Solid53 people
- 15%Emerging18 people
- 7%Unproven8 people
122 of the 122 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 43 of the 122 people here with a read sit in them, 35%. 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.
40%Titles that rose42 of 106 classified people
- 40%Rose42 people
- 60%Stayed level or fell64 people
106 of the 122 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 106 of the 122 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
- UC Berkeley23.5%
- University of Waterloo11.8%
- MIT6.7%
- Georgia Tech3.4%
- Harvey Mudd3.4%
- Stanford3.4%
- UCLA3.4%
- UIUC3.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 119 people here with a school on file.
Of the 119 people here with a school on file, 28 list UC Berkeley, 14 list University of Waterloo and 8 list MIT. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
57%have a public GitHub account on their profile
70 of the 122 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
70% of the people who have worked at Yelp and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Yelp
Everyone on the map
- 70%SF Bay Area85 · map 47%
- 24%New York29 · map 33%
- 6%Los Angeles7 · map 6%
All 122 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 they worked at Yelp: 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 Yelp, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 122 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Yelp: 1 are there now and 121 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Yelp is Google (11 people, 9% of recorded departures), followed by Meta and Uber.
- The most common previous employer before Yelp is Amazon (4 people), followed by Microsoft.
- The median tenure at Yelp is 2y 4m (middle half 1y 1m to 3y 11m).
- Of those who moved on from Yelp, 3% went on to a founder title, 16% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 27% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Yelp is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (122 scored).
- The most common title held at Yelp is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 119 people here with a school on file, 28 list UC Berkeley (23.5%), then University of Waterloo (14). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 70% of the 122 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.
- 57% of the 122 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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