After Applied Intuition
- 10%Founded something5
- 24%Joined a startup12
- 14%Joined a big company7
- 53%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Applied Intuition most often go to Waymo, OpenAI and Onyx AI. 10% found something next. 24% go small. Median stay 1y 11m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Applied Intuition's headcount: 144 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 63 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1440.5% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 9063% of the people here
- Moved on
- 5438% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 11mmiddle half 1y 1m to 3y 3m
Put Applied Intuition 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 arrive from Google. Most leave for Waymo (12% of recorded departures).
How long people stay
15%<1y
35%1-2y
32%2-4y
17%4-7y
1%7y+
144 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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0014
0015
0016
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1018
1019
7020
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24322
32323
271324
341925
81626
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 144 joined, 54 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%90
0Eng Scorer caliber, 144 scored99
there now 83 moved on 85. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Engineering67
- Software Engineer57
- Engineering Manager5
- Engineer3
- Machine Learning Engineer3
- Senior Software Engineer3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 3%Exceptional4 people
- 24%Strong34 people
- 47%Solid67 people
- 27%Emerging or unproven39 people
144 of the 144 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 38 of the 144 people here with a read sit in them, 26%. 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.
34%Titles that rose26 of 77 classified people
- 34%Rose26 people
- 66%Stayed level or fell51 people
77 of the 144 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 77 of the 144 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
- UC Berkeley25.0%
- Stanford13.9%
- Carnegie Mellon9.7%
- Georgia Tech6.9%
- MIT6.3%
- UIUC4.9%
- University of Michigan4.2%
- UT Austin3.5%
The 8 most listed schools among the 144 people here with a school on file.
Of the 144 people here with a school on file, 36 list UC Berkeley, 20 list Stanford and 14 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
23%have a public GitHub account on their profile
33 of the 144 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
92% of the people who have worked at Applied Intuition and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Applied Intuition
Everyone on the map
- 92%SF Bay Area133 · map 47%
- 2%Washington DC3 · map 7%
- 6%Somewhere else8
All 144 people who worked at Applied Intuition 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 Applied Intuition: 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 Applied Intuition, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 144 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Applied Intuition: 90 are there now and 54 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Applied Intuition is Waymo (6 people, 12% of recorded departures), followed by OpenAI and Onyx AI.
- The most common previous employer before Applied Intuition is Google (10 people), followed by Meta and Amazon.
- The median tenure at Applied Intuition is 1y 11m (middle half 1y 1m to 3y 3m).
- Of those who moved on from Applied Intuition, 10% went on to a founder title, 24% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 14% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Applied Intuition is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (144 scored).
- The most common title held at Applied Intuition is Engineering, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 144 people here with a school on file, 36 list UC Berkeley (25.0%), then Stanford (20). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 92% of the 144 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 23% of the 144 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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