After American Express
- 3%Founded something6
- 13%Joined a startup29
- 40%Joined a big company86
- 44%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave American Express most often go to Amazon, Microsoft and Bloomberg. Of them, 13% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 9m
Not American Express's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 283 people on a map of 67,181, No. 82 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2830.4% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 6623% of the people here
- Moved on
- 21777% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 9mmiddle half 1y to 2y 9m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for Amazon (12% of recorded departures).
16 of 221 recorded arrivals shown, 205 more from 191 other companies59 of 228 recorded departures shown, 169 more to 151 other companies
How long people stay
24%<1y
30%1-2y
34%2-4y
9%4-7y
3%7y+
230 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
4<312
<3313
13614
121215
111216
10817
231418
503419
362620
344521
313222
301123
291724
161925
5426
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 305 joined, 245 left.
Caliber
76mediantop 10%84
0Eng Scorer caliber, 114 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer56
- Software Engineer Intern54
- Software Engineer II18
- Senior Software Engineer13
- Machine Learning Engineer11
- Software Engineer III8
- AI Engineer7
- Data Engineer7
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 20% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 3%Exceptional3 people
- 4%Strong4 people
- 28%Solid32 people
- 58%Emerging65 people
- 8%Unproven9 people
113 of the 283 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
7 of the 113 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 6%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
37%Titles that rose79 of 212 classified people
- 37%Rose79 people
- 54%Stayed level115 people
- 8%Fell18 people
212 of the 283 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 Tech11.8%
- Arizona State8.5%
- UC Berkeley4.0%
- Cornell3.7%
- Columbia3.3%
- UC San Diego3.3%
- UT Austin3.3%
- NYU2.9%
The 8 most listed schools among the 272 people here with a school on file.
32 of the 272 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 23 list Arizona State and 11 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
21%have a public GitHub account on their profile
59 of the 282 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
29% of the people who have worked at American Express and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
American Express
Everyone on the map
- 29%SF Bay Area83 · map 41%
- 29%New York82 · map 18%
- 7%Phoenix19 · map 0.2%
- 5%Washington DC14 · map 13%
- 4%Seattle12 · map 5%
- 4%Dallas-Fort Worth10 · map 0.9%
- 3%Los Angeles9 · map 5%
- 1%Atlanta4 · map 1%
- 17%Somewhere else49
282 of the 283 people who worked at American Express list a location, and every share here is over those 282.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at American Express: 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 American Express, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 283 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at American Express: 66 are there now, 217 have moved on.
- Most leave for Amazon: 27 people, 12% of recorded departures. Then Microsoft and Bloomberg.
- Most arrive from Meta: 4 people. Then Amazon and Capital One.
- Median tenure at American Express: 1y 9m, middle half 1y to 2y 9m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after American Express, 3% went to a founder title next, 13% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 40% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 76 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 114 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 32 of the 272 people here with one on file (11.8%). Then Arizona State (23).
- 29% of the 282 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.
- 21% of the 282 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 79 rose, 115 stayed level, 18 fell, out of the 212 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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