After ZipRecruiter
- 17%Joined a startup3
- 83%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave ZipRecruiter most often go to a long tail of companies. 17% go small. Median stay 2y 1m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not ZipRecruiter's headcount: 26 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 378 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 260.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 831% of the people here
- Moved on
- 1869% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 1mmiddle half 1y 4m to 3y 2m
Put ZipRecruiter 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.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for ZipRecruiter yet.
How long people stay
12%<1y
28%1-2y
48%2-4y
8%4-7y
4%7y+
25 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
0012
1013
2114
1115
1116
6017
2218
1319
1320
0221
3122
6323
3024
0225
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 27 joined, 19 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (26).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer6
- Software Engineer III5
- Senior Software Engineer4
- Software Engineer II3
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 8% of people here.
Where they studied
- UCLA19.2%
- UC Berkeley15.4%
- USC11.5%
The 3 most listed schools among the 26 people here with a school on file.
Of the 26 people here with a school on file, 5 list UCLA, 4 list UC Berkeley and 3 list USC. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer than that here.
Where they are now
35% of the people who have worked at ZipRecruiter and list a location live in Los Angeles today, against 6% of everyone on the map.
ZipRecruiter
Everyone on the map
- 35%Los Angeles9 · map 6%
- 35%SF Bay Area9 · map 47%
- 23%New York6 · map 33%
All 26 people who worked at ZipRecruiter 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 ZipRecruiter: 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 ZipRecruiter, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 26 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at ZipRecruiter: 8 are there now and 18 have moved on.
- The median tenure at ZipRecruiter is 2y 1m (middle half 1y 4m to 3y 2m).
- Of those who moved on from ZipRecruiter, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 17% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and fewer than 3 joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The most common title held at ZipRecruiter is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer III.
- Of the 26 people here with a school on file, 5 list UCLA (19.2%), then UC Berkeley (4). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 35% of the 26 people here who list a location live in Los Angeles today, against 6% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
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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