After Autodesk
- 4%Founded something3
- 11%Joined a startup8
- 24%Joined a big company18
- 61%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Autodesk most often go to Amazon and Airbnb. 4% found something next. 11% go small. Median stay 2y 11m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Autodesk's headcount: 94 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 102 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 940.4% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 2021% of the people here
- Moved on
- 7479% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 11mmiddle half 1y 4m to 5y 4m
Put Autodesk 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 Amazon (8% of recorded departures).
How long people stay
15%<1y
21%1-2y
32%2-4y
19%4-7y
13%7y+
68 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
2512
5213
8414
6615
7516
9517
3518
16319
10720
121321
51022
8423
0224
2525
0126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 93 joined, 77 left.
Caliber
79mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 94 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer12
- Software Engineer12
- Engineering Manager11
- Software Engineer Intern9
- Software Development Intern7
- Principal Engineer5
- Principal Software Engineer4
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 19% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 11%Exceptional or strong10 people
- 30%Solid28 people
- 54%Emerging51 people
- 5%Unproven5 people
94 of the 94 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 10 of the 94 people here with a read sit in them, 11%. 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.
40%Titles that rose31 of 78 classified people
- 40%Rose31 people
- 53%Stayed level41 people
- 8%Fell6 people
78 of the 94 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 78 of the 94 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.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley12.1%
- Stanford5.5%
- Penn4.4%
- University of Waterloo4.4%
- USC4.4%
- Carnegie Mellon3.3%
- Cornell3.3%
- NC State3.3%
The 8 most listed schools among the 91 people here with a school on file.
Of the 91 people here with a school on file, 11 list UC Berkeley, 5 list Stanford and 4 list Penn. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
43%have a public GitHub account on their profile
40 of the 94 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
53% of the people who have worked at Autodesk and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Autodesk
Everyone on the map
- 53%SF Bay Area50 · map 47%
- 33%New York31 · map 33%
- 11%Los Angeles10 · map 6%
- 3%Seattle3 · map 3%
All 94 people who worked at Autodesk 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 Autodesk: 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 Autodesk, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 94 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Autodesk: 20 are there now and 74 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Autodesk is Amazon (6 people, 8% of recorded departures), followed by Airbnb.
- The most common previous employer before Autodesk is Google (3 people).
- The median tenure at Autodesk is 2y 11m (middle half 1y 4m to 5y 4m).
- Of those who moved on from Autodesk, 4% went on to a founder title, 11% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 24% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Autodesk is 79 on the 0 to 99 scale (94 scored).
- The most common title held at Autodesk is Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 91 people here with a school on file, 11 list UC Berkeley (12.1%), then Stanford (5). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 53% of the 94 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.
- 43% of the 94 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 78 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 31 rose, 41 stayed level and 6 fell.
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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