After Adobe
- 3%Founded something4
- 9%Joined a startup12
- 23%Joined a big company31
- 66%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Adobe most often go to Meta, Apple and Microsoft. Median stay 2y 9m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Adobe's headcount: 201 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 43 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2010.8% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 5728% of the people here
- Moved on
- 14472% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 9mmiddle half 1y 2m to 4y 9m
Put Adobe 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 Frame.io. Most leave for Meta (6% of recorded departures).
33 of 180 recorded arrivals shown, 147 more from 140 other companies42 of 143 recorded departures shown, 101 more to 98 other companies
How long people stay
21%<1y
16%1-2y
27%2-4y
21%4-7y
15%7y+
158 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
5412
6413
4114
8915
11516
19717
281918
281819
111720
271721
252022
9923
12924
61125
4226
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 203 joined, 152 left.
Caliber
79mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 201 scored99
there now 78 moved on 82. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer45
- Software Engineer Intern27
- Senior Software Engineer22
- Engineering Manager10
- Computer Scientist8
- Research Intern8
- Senior Engineering Manager6
- Senior Manager6
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 12% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 1%Exceptional3 people
- 13%Strong26 people
- 33%Solid66 people
- 49%Emerging99 people
- 3%Unproven7 people
201 of the 201 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 29 of the 201 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
47%Titles that rose67 of 142 classified people
- 47%Rose67 people
- 46%Stayed level66 people
- 6%Fell9 people
142 of the 201 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 142 of the 201 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
- UC Berkeley17.2%
- Stanford8.1%
- Carnegie Mellon7.1%
- UCLA4.0%
- San Jose State3.5%
- University of Washington3.5%
- Brown3.0%
- USC3.0%
The 8 most listed schools among the 198 people here with a school on file.
Of the 198 people here with a school on file, 34 list UC Berkeley, 16 list Stanford and 14 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
42%have a public GitHub account on their profile
84 of the 201 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
60% of the people who have worked at Adobe and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Adobe
Everyone on the map
- 60%SF Bay Area120 · map 47%
- 29%New York59 · map 33%
- 5%Los Angeles11 · map 6%
- 1%Seattle3 · map 3%
- 1%Washington DC3 · map 7%
- 2%Somewhere else5
All 201 people who worked at Adobe 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 Adobe: 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 Adobe, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 201 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Adobe: 57 are there now and 144 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Adobe is Meta (8 people, 6% of recorded departures), followed by Apple and Microsoft.
- The most common previous employer before Adobe is Frame.io (10 people), followed by Microsoft and TubeMogul, Inc..
- The median tenure at Adobe is 2y 9m (middle half 1y 2m to 4y 9m).
- Of those who moved on from Adobe, 3% went on to a founder title, 9% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 23% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Adobe is 79 on the 0 to 99 scale (201 scored).
- The most common title held at Adobe is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 198 people here with a school on file, 34 list UC Berkeley (17.2%), then Stanford (16). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 60% of the 201 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.
- 42% of the 201 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 142 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 67 rose, 66 stayed level and 9 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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