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Exa vs Parallel: The Search Wars

updated May 25, 2026 / source: MTS + roles.directory / score_version v0.1
quick_read
exa
current headcount78
open roles31
month 12 retention74.4%
avg density4.66
avg age28.2
parallel web systems
current headcount50
open roles19
month 12 retention100%
avg density4.76
avg age33.3
talent_timeline
ExaParallel
talent_retention
month_12
exa
74.4%
32 of 43 still there at 12mo
parallel web systems
100%
23 of 23 still there at 12mo
ExaParallel
click a month on the chart
where_they_went
Exa
15 of 21 recent departures with a known next role
Parallel Web Systems
2 of 5 recent departures with a known next role
team_age
Exa median 28 · avg 28.2 · 74/78 known|Parallel median 31 · avg 33.3 · 50/50 known
ExaParallel
age_mix
exa · 74 known · median 28
20-24
17
25-29
33
30-34
19
35-39
4
40+
1
bands
5 age ranges
parallel · 50 known · median 31
20-24
4
25-29
15
30-34
12
35-39
8
40+
11
department
exa avg
parallel avg
younger
Research/ML
28.4
n/a
n/a
Engineering/Infra
26.7
33.8
Exa
GTM/DevRel
31.5
33.4
Exa
Product/Design
28
29
Exa
Business/Ops
29.9
32.4
Exa
talent_overlap_map
ExaParallelGoogle (9:7)Microsoft (1:8)Twitter (2:7)Amazon (5:2)Apple (5:2)Patreon (0:6)Cognition (0:5)Uber (4:1)Windsurf (0:5)Amazon Web Serv…IBM Global Serv…Meta (0:4)Stanford Univer…Stealth Startup…Stripe (3:1)The University …Capital One (0:…Cresta (3:0)Goldman Sachs J…Kitty Hawk (0:3)LLinkedIn (2:1)McKinsey & Comp…Nortech AI (3:0)Oracle (1:2)Plaid (3:0)South Park Comm…Stealth (3:0)Tesla (3:0)
function_shape
exa
parallel web systems
headcount
38
33
% company
48.7%
66%
hires 12mo
24
18
12mo join share
63.2%
54.5%
median tenure
8mo
9mo
median age
26
31
leadership
2
3
open roles
12
6
talent_gravity
current_people7850
recent_hires_12m5331
avg_talent_density4.664.76
top_score_band_density87%98%
open_roles3119
roles_hiring_intent
open roles by month
exa parallel web systems
exa
open34
Avg salary band$149k–$272k (avg $211k, n=33/34)
workplaceOn-site 100%
Account ExecutiveGTM · $200k–$450k
Backend EngineerEngineering · $180k–$350k
Data PartnershipsGTM · $180k–$300k
Design EngineerProduct · $150k–$280k
DesignerProduct · $150k–$280k
DevRel EngineerEngineering · $130k–$200k
Executive AssistantOperations · $100k–$200k
Executive Assistant to FoundersOperations · $100k–$200k
Field MarketingGTM · $155k–$180k
Forward Deployed EngineerGTM · $150k–$250k
Growth MarketingGTM · $130k–$200k
Growth Marketing ManagerGTM · $130k–$200k
GTM RecruiterPeople · $100k–$180k
Head of Sales DevelopmentGTM · $210k–$300k
Head of TalentPeople · $200k–$300k
Infra EngineerEngineering · $180k–$350k
MarketingGTM · $120k–$220k
ML Evals EngineerResearch · $180k–$350k
ML Research EngineerResearch · $180k–$350k
People OperationsPeople · $100k–$150k
Product MarketingGTM · $120k–$220k
Recruiting CoordinatorPeople · $90k–$150k
Research Engineer, GeneralistResearch · $90k–$300k
Software Engineer, Developer RelationsEngineering · $78k–$200k
Software Engineer, Full StackEngineering · $180k–$350k
Software Engineer, InfrastructureEngineering · $150k–$300k
Software Engineer, Web CrawlingEngineering · $150k–$300k
Strategic PartnershipsGTM · $180k–$300k
Web Crawler EngineerEngineering · $180k–$350k
parallel web systems
open24
Avg salary band$166k–$287k (avg $227k, n=18/24)
workplaceOn-site 100%
Deployed EngineerEngineering · $150k–$300k
Design EngineerDesign · $200k–$280k
Designer, Brand & MarketingDesign · $180k–$260k
DevRel EngineerEngineering · $150k–$300k
Early Career Research EngineerEngineering · $150k–$300k
GTM FinanceOperations · $175k–$225k
Head of CommsMarketing · $200k–$300k
Head of MarketingMarketing · $200k–$350k
Head of SecurityEngineering · $150k–$300k
IT ManagerOperations
Member of Technical Staff, AIEngineering · $150k–$300k
Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & APIEngineering · $150k–$300k
Member of Technical Staff, Front-endEngineering · $150k–$300k
Product & Privacy CounselOther · $190k–$225k
Product DesignerDesign · $200k–$280k
Research ScientistEngineering · $150k–$300k
Technical Product Marketing ManagerMarketing · $150k–$250k
company_lineage
exa (102)
May 2021
Aditya Surbhitfirst eng hire· Software Engineer (past, left Aug 2021)
Alex G.· Chief Executive Officer (past, left Jan 2023)
Jun 2021
Will Bryk· Co-Founder and CEO (current)
Mar 2022
Kudzo Ahegbebu· Cofounder & CTO (past, left Feb 2024)
May 2022
Ajay Arasanipalaifirst research hire· Machine Learning Engineer (past, left Aug 2022)
2023, month unknown
Jeffrey Wang· Co-Founder (current)
Sep 2023
Sarah Chiengfirst gtm hire· First hire, GTM + Engineering (past, left Jun 2024)
Oct 2023
Hrolfur Eyjolfsson· AI Research Engineer (past, left Oct 2023)
Nov 2023
Benjamin Chen· Machine Learning Researcher (current)
Hubert Yuan· Software Engineer (current)
2024, month unknown
Joshua Ahn· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Shreyas S.· Founding Engineer (current)
Thais Castello Branco· Founding Head of Strategy & Marketing (past, left Oct 2025)
Feb 2024
Eugene Chan· Software Engineer (past, left Nov 2025)
Apr 2024
Isabelle Hughesfirst ops hire· Founding Head of GTM & Ops (past, left Aug 2025)
Michael Fine· Machine Learning Researcher (current)
Jun 2024
João Adriano· Technical Staff (current)
Sharon Kanyuira· GTM (current)
Vishal Khannafirst product hire· Head of Product & Technical GTM (past, left Oct 2025)
Jul 2024
Stanislava Tarasiuk· People & Business Operations (current)
Aug 2024
Felix Zeller· Technical Staff (current)
Sep 2024
Emma Ridley· GTM (past, left Feb 2026)
Gabriel C.· Software Engineer (current)
Maiia S.· GTM (current)
Oct 2024
Elizabeth Trykin· Developer Experience Engineer (past, left May 2025)
Evan Crow· Member of Technical Staff (past, left May 2025)
Ishan Goswami· Head of Devrel / Member of Technical Staff (current)
Dec 2024
Anish Palakurthi· Software Engineer (past, left Jan 2025)
Sam Mitchell· Research Scientist (current)
2025, month unknown
Carlos Marques· MLOps Engineer (current)
Felicia M. Tang· Chief of Staff (current)
Ira Bodnar· Head of Growth (past, left Jan 2025)
Jeeyoung Kim· Head of Engineering (current)
Jessica Zhao· ML (current)
Kajal Dayal· Head of Enterprise GTM (past, left Jan 2026)
Liam Hinzman· Lead Software Engineer (current)
Shubhang Kandiraju· Product (past, left Jan 2025)
Feb 2025
Zixi An· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Apr 2025
Marco Wang· Software Engineer (past, left Jun 2025)
Mark Pekala· Software Engineer (current)
Roland Killian· Software Engineer (current)
Song Y.· Design Engineer (current)
May 2025
William Roberts· Growth & Product (current)
Jun 2025
Benjamin Y Chan· Research Scientist (current)
Jacob Peddicord· Product & GTM (past, left Aug 2025)
Rohit P.· Software Engineer (current)
Jul 2025
Danielle Kasuba· Executive Assistant to Founders (current)
Linh Nguyen· Data Engineer (current)
Nitya Sridhar· Marketing and Product lead (current)
Shyam Kumar· product (current)
Aug 2025
Aman Choudhri· Software Engineer (current)
Ayaan Zaveri· Software Engineer (past, left Dec 2025)
Tanishq Jaiswal· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Sep 2025
Adam Kita· Software Engineer (Crawling) (past, left Mar 2026)
conrad soon· member of semi-technical staff (current)
Gavin Smith· Founding Strategic Account Executive (current)
Jeremy Gleeson· Software Engineer (current)
Sophia Sharif· Recruiter & Software Engineer (current)
Oct 2025
Dhash Shrivathsa· Software Engineer (past, left Dec 2025)
Jakub Hojsan· Forward Deployed Engineer (current)
Scott Langille· Engineering & Growth (current)
Skylar Brown· Software Engineer (past, left Nov 2025)
Summer Devlin· Software Engineer (current)
William L.· Member of Technical Staff (past, left Jan 2026)
Nov 2025
Alexandra Iamonaco· People (current)
Grégoire Lionnet· Scaling Crawling @ Exa (current)
Isaak Garber· BizOps (current)
Joshua Yurtsever· Machine Learning Researcher (current)
Louis Walsh· Forward Deployed Engineer (current)
Zoe Zheng· Founding Motion Designer (current)
Dec 2025
Jan van der Vegt· Machine Learning Engineer (current)
Shef Wang· Growth (current)
2026, month unknown
Adeesh Jain· BizOps & GTM (current)
Cat Yu· Strategic Account Executive (current)
Jatin Gupta· GTM Engineer (current)
Jonah Berman· Forward Deployed Engineer (current)
Lakee Sivaraya· Machine Learning Engineer (current)
Mitchell Sabbadini· Software Engineer (current)
Ryan Wong· Software Engineer (current)
Sami Yousef· Software Engineer (current)
William L.· Engineer (current)
Wouter Stolk· Machine Learning Engineer (current)
Yi Y.· Forward Deployed Engineer (current)
Feb 2026
Chris Perpignani· Enterprise Growth (current)
Mar 2026
Andrew Kim· Expansion (current)
Arnav Wadehra· Search (current)
Ben Digne· gtm (current)
Brandt Hedgpeth· Product & Growth (current)
Felix Kroner· Machine Learning Research Engineer at Exa (current)
Jeremy Suh· Search R&D (current)
John Connell· Talent Engineer (current)
Kyle Walden· Strategic Partnerships / GTM (current)
Matej Stuchlik· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Max Buckley· Head of Knowledge Research (current)
Patrick Schork· Founding Security Engineer (current)
Sidney Williamson· Executive Operations (current)
Teo Gonzalez· Partnerships (current)
Ventsi T.· GTM (current)
Apr 2026
Alexandre J.· Strategic Partnerships (current)
Pedro Fernandes· Software Engineer (current)
Tanmay Sachan· Search R&D (current)
Wen-Hao Lue· Software Engineer (current)
parallel web systems (55)
Oct 2023
Arunanshu Royfirst eng hire· Founding Engineer (current)
Michael Jahrfirst eng hire· Founding Engineer (current)
Parag Agrawal· Founder (current)
Nov 2023
Catalin Popescu· Engineer (current)
Travers Nisbet· Co-Founder (current)
Dec 2023
Shubham Gupta· Founding Engineer (past, left Nov 2025)
Venu Gopal Kasturi· Founding Engineer (current)
2024, month unknown
Gauri Gupta· Member of Technical Staff (past, left Jan 2026)
Mar 2024
Welton Wang· Member of Technical Staff (past, left Jun 2025)
Jun 2024
Kumar Saunack· Intern (current)
Pranay Reddy Samala· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Jul 2024
Anshul Tomar· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Prateek Varshney· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Aug 2024
Shlok Mehrotra· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Sep 2024
Yusuf Efe· Member of Technical Staff (past, left Jan 2026)
Oct 2024
Manvesh Vyas· Engineer (current)
Nov 2024
Aman Kansal· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Khushi Shelatfirst ops hire· Business Operations (current)
2025, month unknown
Darien Lee· Finance & Ops (current)
Kapil Vaidya· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Mykola S.· Engineering (current)
Feb 2025
Tommy Vo Tran· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Mar 2025
Qiao Han· Software Engineer (current)
Apr 2025
Tina Jiangfirst product hire· Product + GTM (current)
Tushar Gupta· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Aug 2025
Utkarsh Srivastava· Head of Engineering (current)
Wijnand Karsens· Full Stack Product Engineer, Developer Experience / Developer Relations (past, left Jan 2026)
Sep 2025
Chris Lifirst gtm hire· GTM-1 (current)
Nick Sallon· Strategic Advisor (current)
Oct 2025
Adam Jacoby· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Ipshita Agarwal· GTM (current)
Ken Kawamoto· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Lukas Levert· Product Marketing (current)
Nov 2025
Charles Martin· AI Natives (current)
Karan Aggarwal· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Matt H.· Member of Technical Staff - Engineering (current)
Serj B.· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Dec 2025
Chris Tomaselli· Enterprise GTM (current)
Nick Martitsch· Strategic Partnerships (current)
2026, month unknown
Angela Gandhi· Head of Legal (current)
Bryce Lowe· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Edward He· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Sahith J.· Builder (current)
Feb 2026
Rahul Huilgol· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Son Do· Member of Technical Staff - FDE (current)
Mar 2026
Dave Frankel· GTM (current)
Graham Moreno· Head of GTM at Parallel Web Systems (current)
Jerry Zhu· Member of Technical Staff (current)
Liam H. Mulcahy· GTM (current)
Apr 2026
Alex Laubscher· Deployed Engineering (current)
Dani McCabe· Head of GTM Enablement (current)
Nitin Kesarwani· Member of Technical Staff (current)
May 2026
Elijah G. J.· MTS, Deployed Engineering (current)
Lainey Tagliaferri· GTM (current)
Nate Kanat· GTM (current)