After Zillow
- 12%Founded something5
- 29%Joined a big company12
- 59%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Zillow most often go to Google and Microsoft. 12% found something next. Median stay 2y 10m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Zillow's headcount: 60 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 154 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 600.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1627% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4473% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 10mmiddle half 1y 11m to 3y 11m
Put Zillow 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 Trulia. Most leave for Google (7% of recorded departures).
5 of 47 recorded arrivals shown, 42 more from 40 other companies6 of 42 recorded departures shown, 36 more to 33 other companies
How long people stay
9%<1y
17%1-2y
50%2-4y
20%4-7y
4%7y+
46 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1012
0013
0014
3215
10716
8517
7418
11319
6620
1621
111022
6423
1224
0025
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 65 joined, 49 left.
Caliber
79mediantop 10%86
0Eng Scorer caliber, 60 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer14
- Software Engineer9
- Software Development Engineer Intern8
- Software Engineer Intern8
- Software Development Engineer5
- Senior Manager3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 17% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 10%Strong6 people
- 38%Solid23 people
- 45%Emerging27 people
- 7%Unproven4 people
60 of the 60 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 6 of the 60 people here with a read sit in them, 10%. 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.
48%Titles that rose20 of 42 classified people
- 48%Rose20 people
- 52%Stayed level or fell22 people
42 of the 60 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 42 of the 60 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 Berkeley10.3%
- UC Davis6.9%
- UIUC6.9%
- San Jose State5.2%
- Stanford5.2%
- UC Irvine5.2%
- USC5.2%
The 7 most listed schools among the 58 people here with a school on file.
Of the 58 people here with a school on file, 6 list UC Berkeley, 4 list UC Davis and 4 list UIUC. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
45%have a public GitHub account on their profile
27 of the 60 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
62% of the people who have worked at Zillow and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Zillow
Everyone on the map
- 62%SF Bay Area37 · map 47%
- 17%New York10 · map 33%
- 12%Los Angeles7 · map 6%
- 10%Somewhere else6
All 60 people who worked at Zillow 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 Zillow: 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 Zillow, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 60 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Zillow: 16 are there now and 44 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Zillow is Google (3 people, 7% of recorded departures), followed by Microsoft.
- The most common previous employer before Zillow is Trulia (5 people).
- The median tenure at Zillow is 2y 10m (middle half 1y 11m to 3y 11m).
- Of those who moved on from Zillow, 12% went on to a founder title, fewer than 3 joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 29% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Zillow is 79 on the 0 to 99 scale (60 scored).
- The most common title held at Zillow is Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 58 people here with a school on file, 6 list UC Berkeley (10.3%), then UC Davis (4). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 62% of the 60 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.
- 45% of the 60 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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