After Zillow
- 5%Founded something5
- 8%Joined a startup8
- 39%Joined a big company37
- 48%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Zillow most often go to Google, Meta and Microsoft. Of them, 5% found something next. The median tenure is 2y 11m
Not Zillow's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 139 people on a map of 67,181, No. 172 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1390.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3626% of the people here
- Moved on
- 10374% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 11mmiddle half 1y 10m to 4y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Google (8% of recorded departures).
25 of 116 recorded arrivals shown, 91 more from 87 other companies28 of 99 recorded departures shown, 71 more to 66 other companies
How long people stay
15%<1y
12%1-2y
43%2-4y
22%4-7y
7%7y+
107 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3<312
<3<313
<3014
5315
16916
15817
16818
23919
131520
141121
213122
171123
3524
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 148 joined, 113 left.
Caliber
78mediantop 10%86
0Eng Scorer caliber, 69 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer25
- Software Engineer21
- Software Development Engineer16
- Senior Software Development Engineer14
- Software Engineer Intern14
- Software Development Engineer Intern13
- Machine Learning Engineer5
- Principal Software Engineer5
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.
- 9%Strong6 people
- 38%Solid26 people
- 46%Emerging32 people
- 7%Unproven5 people
69 of the 139 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
6 of the 69 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 9%. 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.
51%Titles that rose52 of 102 classified people
- 51%Rose52 people
- 41%Stayed level42 people
- 8%Fell8 people
102 of the 139 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
- Georgia Tech8.8%
- UC Berkeley7.3%
- UIUC7.3%
- University of Washington7.3%
- Carnegie Mellon5.8%
- Stanford5.1%
- USC4.4%
- San Jose State3.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 137 people here with a school on file.
12 of the 137 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 10 list UC Berkeley and 10 list UIUC. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
40%have a public GitHub account on their profile
56 of the 139 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
47% of the people who have worked at Zillow and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Zillow
Everyone on the map
- 47%SF Bay Area65 · map 41%
- 19%Seattle26 · map 5%
- 14%New York20 · map 18%
- 7%Los Angeles10 · map 5%
- 4%Washington DC6 · map 13%
- 9%Somewhere else12
All 139 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 working at Zillow: 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 Zillow, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 139 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Zillow: 36 are there now, 103 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 8 people, 8% of recorded departures. Then Meta and Microsoft.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 6 people. Then Trulia and Microsoft.
- Median tenure at Zillow: 2y 11m, middle half 1y 10m to 4y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Zillow, 5% went to a founder title next, 8% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 39% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 78 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 69 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 12 of the 137 people here with one on file (8.8%). Then UC Berkeley (10).
- 47% of the 139 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.
- 40% of the 139 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 52 rose, 42 stayed level, 8 fell, out of the 102 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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