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People who leave AOL most often go to Amazon

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not AOL's headcount: 21 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 464 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
210.1% of everyone on the map
There now
00% of the people here
Moved on
21100% of the people here
Median tenure
only 16 stays here have both a start and an end on the record, too few to take a median from

Put AOL 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 leave for Amazon (14% of recorded departures).

AOL13 in · 21 out

13 recorded arrivals from 12 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them

Amazon314%
0 of 13 recorded arrivals shown, 13 more from 12 other companies3 of 21 recorded departures shown, 18 more to 17 other companies

After AOL

  • 24%Joined a big company5
  • 76%Elsewhere

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

How long people stay

6%<1y
38%1-2y
44%2-4y
0%4-7y
13%7y+
median tenure

16 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: 10 joined, 14 left.

Caliber

Not enough scored profiles here yet (21).

Titles held here

  1. Senior Software Engineer3
  2. Software Engineer3
  3. Software Engineer Intern3

3 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 33% of people here.

Where they studied

  1. University of Maryland20.0%
  2. University of Virginia15.0%

The 2 most listed schools among the 20 people here with a school on file.

Of the 20 people here with a school on file, 4 list University of Maryland and 3 list University of Virginia. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer than that here.

Where they are now

43% of the people who have worked at AOL and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.

AOL
Everyone on the map
  • 43%New York9 · map 33%
  • 29%SF Bay Area6 · map 47%
  • 24%Washington DC5 · map 7%

All 21 people who worked at AOL 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 they worked at AOL: 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

  • 21 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at AOL: 0 are there now and 21 have moved on.
  • The most common next employer after AOL is Amazon (3 people, 14% of recorded departures).
  • Of those who moved on from AOL, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, fewer than 3 joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 24% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The most common title held at AOL is Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
  • Of the 20 people here with a school on file, 4 list University of Maryland (20.0%), then University of Virginia (3). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 43% of the 21 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.

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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