After AMD
- 2%Founded something3
- 17%Joined a startup21
- 46%Joined a big company58
- 35%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave AMD most often go to Google, Meta and Qualcomm. Of them, 17% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 1m
Not AMD's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 171 people on a map of 67,181, No. 141 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1710.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3722% of the people here
- Moved on
- 13478% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 1mmiddle half 1y 2m to 4y
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for Google (9% of recorded departures).
9 of 115 recorded arrivals shown, 106 more from 97 other companies50 of 130 recorded departures shown, 80 more to 74 other companies
How long people stay
19%<1y
26%1-2y
29%2-4y
20%4-7y
5%7y+
113 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
5612
6613
4614
6915
3816
4<317
9618
7419
101020
181221
201422
141923
301324
172025
4<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 157 joined, 135 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 60 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern18
- Software Engineer17
- Senior Software Engineer16
- Senior Software Development Engineer10
- Member of Technical Staff9
- Senior Member of Technical Staff9
- Software Engineer II6
- AI4
8 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.
- 18%Exceptional or strong11 people
- 40%Solid24 people
- 33%Emerging20 people
- 8%Unproven5 people
60 of the 171 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
11 of the 60 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 18%. 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.
43%Titles that rose52 of 120 classified people
- 43%Rose52 people
- 48%Stayed level57 people
- 9%Fell11 people
120 of the 171 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
- Georgia Tech10.5%
- UT Austin8.2%
- UC Berkeley7.6%
- Stanford7.0%
- Arizona State4.1%
- University of Toronto4.1%
- University of Waterloo4.1%
- Carnegie Mellon3.5%
The 8 most listed schools among the 171 people here with a school on file.
18 of the 171 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 14 list UT Austin and 13 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
34%have a public GitHub account on their profile
58 of the 171 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
64% of the people who have worked at AMD and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
AMD
Everyone on the map
- 64%SF Bay Area109 · map 41%
- 9%New York15 · map 18%
- 5%Austin9 · map 0.8%
- 5%Washington DC9 · map 13%
- 2%Seattle4 · map 5%
- 15%Somewhere else25
All 171 people who worked at AMD 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 AMD: 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 AMD, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 171 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at AMD: 37 are there now, 134 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 12 people, 9% of recorded departures. Then Meta and Qualcomm.
- Most arrive from Meta: 5 people. Then Northrop Grumman.
- Median tenure at AMD: 2y 1m, middle half 1y 2m to 4y.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after AMD, 2% went to a founder title next, 17% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 46% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 60 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 18 of the 171 people here with one on file (10.5%). Then UT Austin (14).
- 64% of the 171 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.
- 34% of the 171 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 52 rose, 57 stayed level, 11 fell, out of the 120 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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