After Autodesk
- 3%Founded something4
- 15%Joined a startup22
- 32%Joined a big company49
- 50%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Autodesk most often go to Amazon, Meta and Microsoft. Of them, 15% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 7m
Not Autodesk's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 186 people on a map of 67,181, No. 127 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1860.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3016% of the people here
- Moved on
- 15684% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 7mmiddle half 1y 1m to 4y 5m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Amazon (6% of recorded departures).
How long people stay
22%<1y
21%1-2y
30%2-4y
20%4-7y
8%7y+
130 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
6812
12713
14714
101015
161216
161217
111418
231019
18920
192121
132122
151023
7624
71325
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 189 joined, 165 left.
Caliber
77mediantop 10%86
0Eng Scorer caliber, 104 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer27
- Software Engineer25
- Software Engineer Intern25
- Engineering Manager11
- Software Development Intern10
- Principal Engineer7
- Machine Learning Engineer5
- Principal Software Engineer5
8 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.
- 10%Exceptional or strong10 people
- 26%Solid27 people
- 58%Emerging60 people
- 7%Unproven7 people
104 of the 186 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
10 of the 104 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 10%. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
45%Titles that rose70 of 155 classified people
- 45%Rose70 people
- 48%Stayed level74 people
- 7%Fell11 people
155 of the 186 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 Berkeley9.9%
- Georgia Tech7.7%
- Stanford5.5%
- Carnegie Mellon5.0%
- Cornell5.0%
- University of Waterloo5.0%
- USC3.9%
- UC San Diego3.3%
The 8 most listed schools among the 182 people here with a school on file.
18 of the 182 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 14 list Georgia Tech and 10 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
40%have a public GitHub account on their profile
74 of the 186 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 Autodesk and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Autodesk
Everyone on the map
- 58%SF Bay Area107 · map 41%
- 19%New York36 · map 18%
- 8%Los Angeles14 · map 5%
- 4%Seattle7 · map 5%
- 3%Washington DC5 · map 13%
- 9%Somewhere else17
All 186 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 working at Autodesk: 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 Autodesk, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 186 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Autodesk: 30 are there now, 156 have moved on.
- Most leave for Amazon: 9 people, 6% of recorded departures. Then Meta and Microsoft.
- Most arrive from Google: 3 people.
- Median tenure at Autodesk: 2y 7m, middle half 1y 1m to 4y 5m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Autodesk, 3% went to a founder title next, 15% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 32% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 77 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 104 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 18 of the 182 people here with one on file (9.9%). Then Georgia Tech (14).
- 58% of the 186 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.
- 40% of the 186 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 70 rose, 74 stayed level, 11 fell, out of the 155 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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