After Applied Intuition
- 6%Founded something5
- 25%Joined a startup22
- 14%Joined a big company12
- 56%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Applied Intuition most often go to Waymo, OpenAI and Medra. Of them, 6% found something next and 25% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 10m
Not Applied Intuition's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 235 people on a map of 67,181, No. 98 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2350.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 14160% of the people here
- Moved on
- 9440% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 10mmiddle half 1y 1m to 3y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for Waymo (9% of recorded departures).
74 of 255 recorded arrivals shown, 181 more from 152 other companies34 of 88 recorded departures shown, 54 more to 47 other companies
How long people stay
20%<1y
35%1-2y
29%2-4y
15%4-7y
2%7y+
234 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
3018
6<319
13320
15021
33422
47823
432124
563425
192326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2018 to 2026: 235 joined, 94 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%90
0Eng Scorer caliber, 154 scored99
there now 83 moved on 85. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer103
- Engineering88
- Engineering Manager14
- Engineer7
- Technical Lead7
- Machine Learning Engineer5
- Senior Software Engineer4
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 3%Exceptional5 people
- 23%Strong35 people
- 44%Solid67 people
- 26%Emerging40 people
- 5%Unproven7 people
154 of the 235 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
40 of the 154 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 26%. 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.
39%Titles that rose48 of 124 classified people
- 39%Rose48 people
- 57%Stayed level71 people
- 4%Fell5 people
124 of the 235 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
- UC Berkeley24.7%
- Stanford13.2%
- Carnegie Mellon10.2%
- MIT9.4%
- Georgia Tech8.9%
- Cornell4.3%
- UIUC4.3%
- University of Michigan3.8%
The 8 most listed schools among the 235 people here with a school on file.
58 of the 235 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 31 list Stanford and 24 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
23%have a public GitHub account on their profile
54 of the 235 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
87% of the people who have worked at Applied Intuition and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Applied Intuition
Everyone on the map
- 87%SF Bay Area204 · map 41%
- 3%Washington DC6 · map 13%
- 2%New York5 · map 18%
- 9%Somewhere else20
All 235 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 working at Applied Intuition: 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 Applied Intuition, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 235 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Applied Intuition: 141 are there now, 94 have moved on.
- Most leave for Waymo: 8 people, 9% of recorded departures. Then OpenAI and Medra.
- Most arrive from Meta: 19 people. Then Google and Amazon.
- Median tenure at Applied Intuition: 1y 10m, middle half 1y 1m to 3y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Applied Intuition, 6% went to a founder title next, 25% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 14% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 154 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Engineering.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 58 of the 235 people here with one on file (24.7%). Then Stanford (31).
- 87% of the 235 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 41% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 23% of the 235 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 48 rose, 71 stayed level, 5 fell, out of the 124 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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