After Amgen
- 8%Founded something6
- 16%Joined a startup12
- 17%Joined a big company13
- 59%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Amgen most often go to Expedia, Google and Terray Therapeutics. Of them, 8% found something next and 16% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 4y 8m
Not Amgen's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 228 people on a map of 67,181, No. 101 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2280.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 15970% of the people here
- Moved on
- 6930% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 4y 8mmiddle half 2y 1m to 8y 7m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from BioMarin Pharmaceutical. Most leave for Expedia (4% of recorded departures).
21 of 187 recorded arrivals shown, 166 more from 157 other companies9 of 76 recorded departures shown, 67 more to 66 other companies
How long people stay
8%<1y
10%1-2y
26%2-4y
26%4-7y
31%7y+
242 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
8<312
8<313
4414
7<315
6516
6417
18618
111219
231120
15621
16622
171023
41724
12625
7326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 199 joined, 84 left.
Caliber
71mediantop 10%84
0Eng Scorer caliber, 33 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Manager23
- Executive Director22
- Senior Scientist18
- Scientist14
- Principal Scientist13
- Associate Scientist10
- Senior Project Manager10
- Senior Associate9
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 22% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 21%Strong or solid7 people
- 48%Emerging16 people
- 30%Unproven10 people
33 of the 228 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Fewer than 3 of the 33 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, too few to print as a count. 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.
61%Titles that rose95 of 155 classified people
- 61%Rose95 people
- 30%Stayed level47 people
- 8%Fell13 people
155 of the 228 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
- UCLA12.0%
- USC5.8%
- UC Berkeley5.3%
- Keck Graduate Institute4.0%
- UC Riverside4.0%
- UC San Diego3.6%
- Caltech2.7%
- Harvard2.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 225 people here with a school on file.
27 of the 225 people here with a school on file list UCLA, 13 list USC and 12 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
6%have a public GitHub account on their profile
14 of the 228 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
45% of the people who have worked at Amgen and list a location live in Los Angeles today, against 5% of everyone on the map.
Amgen
Everyone on the map
- 45%Los Angeles102 · map 5%
- 14%Santa Barbara31
- 11%SF Bay Area25 · map 41%
- 3%Boston6 · map 2%
- 2%Chicago4 · map 0.6%
- 2%New York4 · map 18%
- 1%Raleigh-Durham3 · map 0.3%
- 1%Washington DC3 · map 13%
- 22%Somewhere else50
All 228 people who worked at Amgen 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 Amgen: 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 Amgen, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 228 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Amgen: 159 are there now, 69 have moved on.
- Most leave for Expedia: 3 people, 4% of recorded departures. Then Google and Terray Therapeutics.
- Most arrive from BioMarin Pharmaceutical: 4 people. Then GSK and Pfizer.
- Median tenure at Amgen: 4y 8m, middle half 2y 1m to 8y 7m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Amgen, 8% went to a founder title next, 16% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 17% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 71 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 33 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Manager, then Executive Director.
- Top school: UCLA, listed by 27 of the 225 people here with one on file (12.0%). Then USC (13).
- 45% of the 228 people here who list a location live in Los Angeles today, against 5% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 6% of the 228 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 95 rose, 47 stayed level, 13 fell, out of the 155 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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