After Appian
- 12%Joined a startup4
- 21%Joined a big company7
- 67%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Appian most often go to Palantir Technologies and Capital One. 12% go small. Median stay 2y 11m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Appian's headcount: 40 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 248 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 400.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 615% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3485% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 11mmiddle half 1y 10m to 3y 10m
Put Appian 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 Palantir Technologies (18% of recorded departures).
37 recorded arrivals from 34 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 37 recorded arrivals shown, 37 more from 34 other companies9 of 34 recorded departures shown, 25 more to 25 other companies
How long people stay
11%<1y
19%1-2y
52%2-4y
11%4-7y
7%7y+
27 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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3215
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2217
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4219
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 44 joined, 38 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 40 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern13
- Software Engineer11
- Senior Software Engineer9
- Software Engineer II9
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 13% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 15%Strong6 people
- 43%Solid17 people
- 43%Emerging or unproven17 people
40 of the 40 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 6 of the 40 people here with a read sit in them, 15%. A tier is the band an Eng Scorer 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 together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
50%Titles that rose17 of 34 classified people
- 50%Rose17 people
- 50%Stayed level or fell17 people
34 of the 40 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 who recorded one title here and then left, it is 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. A title that matches no rung is left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely, being a different ladder. That leaves 34 of the 40 people here classified, and it leans towards people who have left: someone still here on a single recorded title has nothing to be measured against. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- University of Maryland30.0%
- University of Virginia15.0%
- Dartmouth12.5%
- Georgia Tech7.5%
- MIT7.5%
- UC Berkeley7.5%
The 6 most listed schools among the 40 people here with a school on file.
Of the 40 people here with a school on file, 12 list University of Maryland, 6 list University of Virginia and 5 list Dartmouth. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
33%have a public GitHub account on their profile
13 of the 40 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check did not find reads the same as no account, so this is a floor rather than a census.
Across the 325 companies on the map that can show this figure, the median is 38%.
Where they are now
43% of the people who have worked at Appian and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 7% of everyone on the map.
Appian
Everyone on the map
- 43%Washington DC17 · map 7%
- 30%New York12 · map 33%
- 25%SF Bay Area10 · map 47%
All 40 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 they worked at Appian: 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.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Appian, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 40 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Appian: 6 are there now and 34 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Appian is Palantir Technologies (6 people, 18% of recorded departures), followed by Capital One.
- The median tenure at Appian is 2y 11m (middle half 1y 10m to 3y 10m).
- Of those who moved on from Appian, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 12% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 21% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Appian is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (40 scored).
- The most common title held at Appian is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 40 people here with a school on file, 12 list University of Maryland (30.0%), then University of Virginia (6). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 43% of the 40 people here who list a location live in Washington DC today, against 7% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 33% of the 40 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
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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