After Zynga
- 17%Founded something8
- 17%Joined a startup8
- 66%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Zynga most often go to a long tail of companies. 17% found something next. 17% go small. Median stay 1y 7m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Zynga's headcount: 50 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 187 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 500.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 00% of the people here
- Moved on
- 50100% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 7mmiddle half 10m to 2y 9m
Put Zynga 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 Zynga yet.
The Zynga mafia
8 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 17% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars are the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders count in the total.
How long people stay
31%<1y
41%1-2y
10%2-4y
13%4-7y
5%7y+
39 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
6612
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3315
4816
3417
1218
2519
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3321
0022
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 40 joined, 51 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 50 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer10
- Software Engineer Intern8
- Senior Software Engineer6
- Product Manager5
- Director of Engineering3
- Principal Software Engineer3
- Senior Engineering Manager3
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 16% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 36%Exceptional or strong18 people
- 40%Solid20 people
- 24%Emerging or unproven12 people
50 of the 50 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 18 of the 50 people here with a read sit in them, 36%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
40%Titles that rose17 of 43 classified people
- 40%Rose17 people
- 49%Stayed level21 people
- 12%Fell5 people
43 of the 50 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 43 of the 50 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.
Where they studied
- University of Waterloo26.5%
- Carnegie Mellon6.1%
- Stanford6.1%
- USC6.1%
The 4 most listed schools among the 49 people here with a school on file.
Of the 49 people here with a school on file, 13 list University of Waterloo, 3 list Carnegie Mellon and 3 list Stanford. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
60%have a public GitHub account on their profile
30 of the 50 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
50% of the people who have worked at Zynga and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Zynga
Everyone on the map
- 50%SF Bay Area25 · map 47%
- 28%New York14 · map 33%
- 18%Los Angeles9 · map 6%
All 50 people who worked at Zynga 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 Zynga: 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 Zynga, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 50 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Zynga: 0 are there now and 50 have moved on.
- The median tenure at Zynga is 1y 7m (middle half 10m to 2y 9m).
- Of those who moved on from Zynga, 17% 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 median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Zynga is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (50 scored).
- The most common title held at Zynga is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 49 people here with a school on file, 13 list University of Waterloo (26.5%), then Carnegie Mellon (3). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 50% of the 50 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.
- 60% of the 50 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 43 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 17 rose, 21 stayed level and 5 fell.
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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