After Bain & Company
- 17%Founded something5
- 13%Joined a startup4
- 70%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Bain & Company most often go to a long tail of companies. 17% found something next. 13% go small. Median stay 2y 10m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Bain & Company's headcount: 34 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 291 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 340.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 39% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3191% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 10mmiddle half 2y to 3y 3m
Put Bain & Company 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 Goldman Sachs.
31 recorded departures to 31 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them
3Goldman Sachs3 of 27 recorded arrivals shown, 24 more from 24 other companies0 of 31 recorded departures shown, 31 more to 31 other companies
How long people stay
9%<1y
15%1-2y
55%2-4y
18%4-7y
3%7y+
33 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 34 joined, 32 left.
Caliber
69mediantop 10%86
0Eng Scorer caliber, 34 scored99
Titles held here
- Associate Consultant12
- Consultant7
- Senior Associate Consultant7
- Associate Consultant Intern4
- Senior Manager4
- Manager3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 35% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 12%Strong4 people
- 21%Solid7 people
- 29%Emerging10 people
- 38%Unproven13 people
34 of the 34 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 4 of the 34 people here with a read sit in them, 12%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
64%Titles that rose18 of 28 classified people
- 64%Rose18 people
- 36%Stayed level or fell10 people
28 of the 34 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 28 of the 34 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. A direction 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.
Where they studied
- Harvard18.2%
- Stanford18.2%
- MIT15.2%
- Penn15.2%
- Columbia12.1%
- Northwestern9.1%
- UC Berkeley9.1%
The 7 most listed schools among the 33 people here with a school on file.
Of the 33 people here with a school on file, 6 list Harvard, 6 list Stanford and 5 list MIT. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
21%have a public GitHub account on their profile
7 of the 34 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
50% of the people who have worked at Bain & Company and list a location live in Los Angeles today, against 6% of everyone on the map.
Bain & Company
Everyone on the map
- 50%Los Angeles17 · map 6%
- 38%New York13 · map 33%
- 12%SF Bay Area4 · map 47%
All 34 people who worked at Bain & Company 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 Bain & Company: 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 Bain & Company, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 34 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Bain & Company: 3 are there now and 31 have moved on.
- The most common previous employer before Bain & Company is Goldman Sachs (3 people).
- The median tenure at Bain & Company is 2y 10m (middle half 2y to 3y 3m).
- Of those who moved on from Bain & Company, 17% went on to a founder title, 13% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and fewer than 3 joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Bain & Company is 69 on the 0 to 99 scale (34 scored).
- The most common title held at Bain & Company is Associate Consultant, then Consultant.
- Of the 33 people here with a school on file, 6 list Harvard (18.2%), then Stanford (6). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 50% of the 34 people here who list a location live in Los Angeles today, against 6% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 21% of the 34 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
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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