After Alibaba Group
- 16%Joined a startup13
- 47%Joined a big company38
- 37%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Alibaba Group most often go to Microsoft, Amazon and ByteDance. Of them, 16% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 8m
Not Alibaba Group's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 99 people on a map of 67,181, No. 237 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 990.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 99% of the people here
- Moved on
- 9091% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 8mmiddle half 4m to 3y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Microsoft. Most leave for Microsoft (8% of recorded departures).
9 of 65 recorded arrivals shown, 56 more from 51 other companies29 of 83 recorded departures shown, 54 more to 50 other companies
How long people stay
38%<1y
15%1-2y
30%2-4y
10%4-7y
7%7y+
60 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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3<314
6415
5616
10717
191218
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151320
81421
0522
71223
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 99 joined, 92 left.
Caliber
79mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 32 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern18
- Software Engineer10
- Research Intern8
- Research Scientist5
- Staff Engineer5
- Machine Learning Engineer3
- Software Engineer Internship3
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 28% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 13%Exceptional or strong4 people
- 34%Solid11 people
- 44%Emerging14 people
- 9%Unproven3 people
32 of the 99 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
4 of the 32 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 13%. A tier is the band a 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 with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
38%Titles that rose29 of 76 classified people
- 38%Rose29 people
- 58%Stayed level44 people
- 4%Fell3 people
76 of the 99 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 with one title here who then left, it's 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. Titles that match no rung are left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely as a different ladder. What's left leans towards people who have left: someone still here on one recorded title has nothing to measure against.
Where they studied
- Carnegie Mellon19.2%
- Shanghai Jiao Tong8.1%
- UIUC8.1%
- Zhejiang University8.1%
- Stanford7.1%
- Tsinghua6.1%
- UC Berkeley6.1%
- University of Michigan6.1%
The 8 most listed schools among the 99 people here with a school on file.
19 of the 99 people here with a school on file list Carnegie Mellon, 8 list Shanghai Jiao Tong and 8 list UIUC. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
29%have a public GitHub account on their profile
29 of the 99 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check missed reads the same as no account, so this is a floor.
31% is the median across the 857 companies that can show this figure.
Where they are now
66% of the people who have worked at Alibaba Group and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Alibaba Group
Everyone on the map
- 66%SF Bay Area65 · map 41%
- 12%Seattle12 · map 5%
- 10%New York10 · map 18%
- 12%Somewhere else12
All 99 people who worked at Alibaba Group 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 working at Alibaba Group: a metro here isn't an office there. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Alibaba Group, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 99 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Alibaba Group: 9 are there now, 90 have moved on.
- Most leave for Microsoft: 7 people, 8% of recorded departures. Then Amazon and ByteDance.
- Most arrive from Microsoft: 5 people. Then Google.
- Median tenure at Alibaba Group: 1y 8m, middle half 4m to 3y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Alibaba Group, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 16% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 47% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 79 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 32 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: Carnegie Mellon, listed by 19 of the 99 people here with one on file (19.2%). Then Shanghai Jiao Tong (8).
- 66% of the 99 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 41% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 29% of the 99 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 29 rose, 44 stayed level, 3 fell, out of the 76 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder before and after.
About this data: built from 352,028 jobs across 67,181 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated September 30, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving. Companies under 20 people on the map aren't shown, and destinations under 3 people fold into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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