After Baidu
- 19%Joined a startup9
- 34%Joined a big company16
- 47%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Baidu most often go to Google. Of them, 19% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y
Not Baidu's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 60 people on a map of 67,181, No. 395 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 600.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 00% of the people here
- Moved on
- 60100% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1ymiddle half 5m to 2y
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Google (13% of recorded departures).
19 recorded arrivals from 17 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 19 recorded arrivals shown, 19 more from 17 other companies6 of 47 recorded departures shown, 41 more to 39 other companies
How long people stay
48%<1y
20%1-2y
24%2-4y
8%4-7y
0%7y+
25 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
5312
4413
12814
3615
<3<316
6617
8818
6819
3320
4521
0<322
<3<323
0<324
<3<325
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 55 joined, 57 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (20).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern8
- Software Engineer5
- Intern4
- Research Intern3
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 65% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
16%Titles that rose7 of 43 classified people
- 16%Rose7 people
- 77%Stayed level33 people
- 7%Fell3 people
43 of the 60 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
- Carnegie Mellon18.3%
- Peking University8.3%
- Stanford8.3%
- UC Berkeley8.3%
- USC8.3%
- Beihang University6.7%
- Georgia Tech6.7%
- NYU6.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 60 people here with a school on file.
11 of the 60 people here with a school on file list Carnegie Mellon, 5 list Peking University and 5 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
22%have a public GitHub account on their profile
13 of the 60 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
57% of the people who have worked at Baidu and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Baidu
Everyone on the map
- 57%SF Bay Area34 · map 41%
- 20%New York12 · map 18%
- 13%Seattle8 · map 5%
- 10%Somewhere else6
All 60 people who worked at Baidu 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 Baidu: 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 Baidu, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 60 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Baidu: 0 are there now, 60 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 6 people, 13% of recorded departures.
- Median tenure at Baidu: 1y, middle half 5m to 2y.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Baidu, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 19% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 34% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: Carnegie Mellon, listed by 11 of the 60 people here with one on file (18.3%). Then Peking University (5).
- 57% of the 60 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.
- 22% of the 60 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 7 rose, 33 stayed level, 3 fell, out of the 43 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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