After Zip
- 100%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Zip most often go to a long tail of companies. Median stay 3y 2m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Zip's headcount: 44 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 221 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 440.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3784% of the people here
- Moved on
- 716% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 2mmiddle half 1y 4m to 4y 2m
Put Zip 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 Airbnb.
10 of 45 recorded arrivals shown, 35 more from 32 other companies0 of 7 recorded departures shown, 7 more to 7 other companies
How long people stay
9%<1y
35%1-2y
21%2-4y
35%4-7y
0%7y+
43 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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0014
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1116
0017
0018
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0020
6021
15022
7323
2124
12125
1126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 44 joined, 7 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 44 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer33
- Engineering Manager7
- Senior Software Engineer6
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 2% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 14%Strong6 people
- 52%Solid23 people
- 34%Emerging or unproven15 people
44 of the 44 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 6 of the 44 people here with a read sit in them, 14%. 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. A tier 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 Berkeley34.1%
- Georgia Tech11.4%
- UIUC6.8%
The 3 most listed schools among the 44 people here with a school on file.
Of the 44 people here with a school on file, 15 list UC Berkeley, 5 list Georgia Tech and 3 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
52%have a public GitHub account on their profile
23 of the 44 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
86% of the people who have worked at Zip and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Zip
Everyone on the map
- 86%SF Bay Area38 · map 47%
- 14%New York6 · map 33%
All 44 people who worked at Zip 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 Zip: 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 Zip, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 44 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Zip: 37 are there now and 7 have moved on.
- The most common previous employer before Zip is Airbnb (7 people), followed by Robinhood.
- The median tenure at Zip is 3y 2m (middle half 1y 4m to 4y 2m).
- Of those who moved on from Zip, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, fewer than 3 joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and fewer than 3 joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Zip is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (44 scored).
- The most common title held at Zip is Software Engineer, then Engineering Manager.
- Of the 44 people here with a school on file, 15 list UC Berkeley (34.1%), then Georgia Tech (5). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 86% of the 44 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.
- 52% of the 44 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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