Zelcastalumni map

People who leave Amazon most often go to Meta, Google and Amazon Web Services (AWS). 3% found something next. 12% go small. Median stay 2y 4m

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Amazon's headcount: 2,533 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 3 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
2,5339.5% of everyone on the map
There now
53121% of the people here
Moved on
2,00279% of the people here
Median tenure
2y 4mmiddle half 1y 2m to 4y

Put Amazon 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 Microsoft. Most leave for Meta (8% of recorded departures). Amazon and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are one company kept apart here, so the ribbon between them is a transfer inside it, not a move to another employer.

Amazon2,320 in · 2,091 out
71Amazon Web Services48Microsoft41Google40Capital One29IBM29Meta21Cisco18JPMorganChase16AppleMeta1618%Google1578%Amazon Web Services1266%Palantir Technologies884%Microsoft643%Stripe442%Uber362%Bloomberg332%LinkedIn271%
313 of 2,320 recorded arrivals shown, 2,007 more from 1,515 other companies736 of 2,091 recorded departures shown, 1,355 more to 834 other companies

After Amazon

  • 3%Founded something60
  • 12%Joined a startup240
  • 28%Joined a big company567
  • 56%Elsewhere

Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.

The Amazon mafia

60 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 3% of those who moved on, half of them within a month of leaving. The bars are the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders count in the total.

How long people stay

18%<1y
24%1-2y
31%2-4y
22%4-7y
5%7y+
2y 4m median tenuremiddle half 1y 2m to 4y

1,803 stays with both a start and an end on the record.

Who comes and goes, by year

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joined left2026 is a partial year

2012 to 2026: 2,846 joined, 2,356 left.

Caliber

83mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 2,533 scored99

there now 79 moved on 83. The people who left score higher than the people still there.

Titles held here

  1. Software Development Engineer Intern608
  2. Software Development Engineer588
  3. Software Engineer441
  4. Software Development Engineer II278
  5. Software Engineer Intern245
  6. Software Development Engineer I86
  7. Senior Software Engineer73
  8. Software Development Engineering Intern69

8 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 14% of people here.

Behind the median

Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.

  • 2%Exceptional51 people
  • 19%Strong482 people
  • 48%Solid1,218 people
  • 29%Emerging746 people
  • 1%Unproven35 people

2,532 of the 2,533 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.

Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 533 of the 2,532 people here with a read sit in them, 21%. 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.

41%Titles that rose859 of 2,090 classified people

  • 41%Rose859 people
  • 57%Stayed level1,189 people
  • 2%Fell42 people

2,090 of the 2,533 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 2,090 of the 2,533 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

  1. UC Berkeley13.8%
  2. Georgia Tech5.0%
  3. Carnegie Mellon4.9%
  4. Stanford3.9%
  5. Columbia3.4%
  6. UIUC3.4%
  7. MIT2.9%
  8. USC2.7%

The 8 most listed schools among the 2,518 people here with a school on file.

Of the 2,518 people here with a school on file, 348 list UC Berkeley, 127 list Georgia Tech and 123 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
31%have a public GitHub account on their profile

796 of the 2,532 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

44% of the people who have worked at Amazon and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

Amazon
Everyone on the map
  • 44%SF Bay Area1,114 · map 47%
  • 36%New York916 · map 33%
  • 9%Seattle227 · map 3%
  • 4%Washington DC101 · map 7%
  • 3%Los Angeles81 · map 6%
  • 0.5%Boston12 · map 0.4%
  • 0.3%Austin8 · map 0.1%
  • 0.2%Denver6 · map 0.2%
  • 3%Somewhere else67

2,532 of the 2,533 people who worked at Amazon list a location, and every share here is over those 2,532.

Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Amazon: 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.

Key facts

  • 2,533 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Amazon: 531 are there now and 2,002 have moved on.
  • The most common next employer after Amazon is Meta (161 people, 8% of recorded departures), followed by Google and Palantir Technologies.
  • The most common previous employer before Amazon is Microsoft (48 people), followed by Google and Capital One.
  • Amazon and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are the same company on this map, kept apart because each hires under its own name. The 71 people counted as arriving from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the 126 counted as leaving for it are almost certainly transfers inside one company rather than changes of employer, and they still sit inside every total on this page.
  • The median tenure at Amazon is 2y 4m (middle half 1y 2m to 4y).
  • Of those who moved on from Amazon, 3% went on to a founder title, 12% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 28% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Amazon is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (2,533 scored).
  • The most common title held at Amazon is Software Development Engineer Intern, then Software Development Engineer.
  • Of the 2,518 people here with a school on file, 348 list UC Berkeley (13.8%), then Georgia Tech (127). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 44% of the 2,532 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.
  • 31% of the 2,532 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
  • Of the 2,090 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 859 rose, 1,189 stayed level and 42 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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