After BAE Systems
- 3%Founded something5
- 20%Joined a startup36
- 27%Joined a big company49
- 50%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave BAE Systems most often go to Booz Allen, Leidos and AWS. Of them, 20% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 7m
Not BAE Systems's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 250 people on a map of 67,181, No. 92 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2500.4% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 5522% of the people here
- Moved on
- 19578% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 7mmiddle half 1y 5m to 4y 7m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Lockheed Martin. Most leave for Booz Allen (6% of recorded departures).
21 of 185 recorded arrivals shown, 164 more from 151 other companies44 of 187 recorded departures shown, 143 more to 125 other companies
How long people stay
17%<1y
21%1-2y
31%2-4y
19%4-7y
12%7y+
217 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
6912
6713
10714
9915
141216
171217
191318
241119
81020
131121
132022
161223
201324
131325
7526
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 195 joined, 164 left.
Caliber
67mediantop 10%83
0Eng Scorer caliber, 84 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer41
- Senior Software Engineer34
- Software Engineer II18
- Principal Software Engineer12
- Software Engineer Intern11
- Technical Intern8
- Senior Principal Software Engineer6
- Software Engineer I6
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 24% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 14%Exceptional or solid12 people
- 61%Emerging51 people
- 25%Unproven21 people
84 of the 250 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Fewer than 3 of the 84 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, too few to print as a count. 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.
43%Titles that rose77 of 180 classified people
- 43%Rose77 people
- 47%Stayed level85 people
- 10%Fell18 people
180 of the 250 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
- Georgia Tech8.0%
- University of Maryland7.6%
- George Mason6.8%
- Johns Hopkins4.4%
- UC San Diego3.6%
- Virginia Tech3.6%
- George Washington3.2%
- University of Maryland Global Campus3.2%
The 8 most listed schools among the 249 people here with a school on file.
20 of the 249 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 19 list University of Maryland and 17 list George Mason. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
18%have a public GitHub account on their profile
46 of the 250 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
47% of the people who have worked at BAE Systems and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
BAE Systems
Everyone on the map
- 47%Washington DC117 · map 13%
- 13%SF Bay Area33 · map 41%
- 7%New York18 · map 18%
- 7%Boston17 · map 2%
- 3%San Diego8 · map 0.5%
- 2%Los Angeles5 · map 5%
- 2%Baltimore4 · map 0.7%
- 1%Denver3 · map 0.8%
- 18%Somewhere else45
All 250 people who worked at BAE Systems 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 BAE Systems: 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 BAE Systems, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 250 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at BAE Systems: 55 are there now, 195 have moved on.
- Most leave for Booz Allen: 11 people, 6% of recorded departures. Then Leidos and AWS.
- Most arrive from Lockheed Martin: 8 people. Then Northrop Grumman and Leidos.
- Median tenure at BAE Systems: 2y 7m, middle half 1y 5m to 4y 7m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after BAE Systems, 3% went to a founder title next, 20% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 27% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 67 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 84 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 20 of the 249 people here with one on file (8.0%). Then University of Maryland (19).
- 47% of the 250 people here who list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 18% of the 250 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 77 rose, 85 stayed level, 18 fell, out of the 180 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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