After Appian
- 3%Founded something3
- 24%Joined a startup21
- 31%Joined a big company27
- 42%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Appian most often go to Capital One, Palantir and Amazon. Of them, 3% found something next and 24% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y 1m
Not Appian's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 130 people on a map of 67,181, No. 181 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1300.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3728% of the people here
- Moved on
- 9372% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 1mmiddle half 1y 8m to 4y 3m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Microsoft. Most leave for Capital One (7% of recorded departures).
10 of 128 recorded arrivals shown, 118 more from 110 other companies27 of 90 recorded departures shown, 63 more to 60 other companies
How long people stay
15%<1y
15%1-2y
44%2-4y
17%4-7y
10%7y+
101 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3012
<3<313
<3<314
7315
7316
5617
201218
20819
131220
181021
201722
241523
101324
31325
3426
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 155 joined, 118 left.
Caliber
79mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 54 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer46
- Software Engineer Intern44
- Software Engineer II42
- Senior Software Engineer33
- Senior Software Engineer II8
- Lead Software Engineer7
- Consultant5
- Software Engineer I4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 12% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 11%Strong6 people
- 35%Solid19 people
- 37%Emerging20 people
- 17%Unproven9 people
54 of the 130 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
6 of the 54 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 11%. 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.
51%Titles that rose54 of 106 classified people
- 51%Rose54 people
- 42%Stayed level45 people
- 7%Fell7 people
106 of the 130 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
- University of Maryland24.6%
- University of Virginia20.0%
- Georgia Tech11.5%
- MIT8.5%
- Virginia Tech6.9%
- Carnegie Mellon6.2%
- Dartmouth5.4%
- Montgomery College3.1%
The 8 most listed schools among the 130 people here with a school on file.
32 of the 130 people here with a school on file list University of Maryland, 26 list University of Virginia and 15 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
28%have a public GitHub account on their profile
37 of the 130 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
58% of the people who have worked at Appian and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
Appian
Everyone on the map
- 58%Washington DC76 · map 13%
- 15%New York19 · map 18%
- 12%SF Bay Area15 · map 41%
- 3%Seattle4 · map 5%
- 12%Somewhere else16
All 130 people who worked at Appian 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 Appian: 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 Appian, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 130 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Appian: 37 are there now, 93 have moved on.
- Most leave for Capital One: 6 people, 7% of recorded departures. Then Palantir and Amazon.
- Most arrive from Microsoft: 4 people. Then Booz Allen and Capital One.
- Median tenure at Appian: 3y 1m, middle half 1y 8m to 4y 3m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Appian, 3% went to a founder title next, 24% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 31% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 79 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 54 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: University of Maryland, listed by 32 of the 130 people here with one on file (24.6%). Then University of Virginia (26).
- 58% of the 130 people here who list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 28% of the 130 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 54 rose, 45 stayed level, 7 fell, out of the 106 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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