After Bain
- 15%Founded something8
- 19%Joined a startup10
- 9%Joined a big company5
- 57%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Bain most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 15% found something next and 19% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y
Not Bain's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 74 people on a map of 67,181, No. 314 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 740.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1419% of the people here
- Moved on
- 6081% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 1y 3m to 3y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Goldman Sachs.
54 recorded departures to 52 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them
5%3Goldman Sachs3 of 60 recorded arrivals shown, 57 more from 56 other companies0 of 54 recorded departures shown, 54 more to 52 other companies
The Bain mafia
8 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 15% of those who moved on, half of them within a month of leaving. The bars cover the ’18 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
16%<1y
25%1-2y
42%2-4y
14%4-7y
3%7y+
69 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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3<314
<3<315
6<316
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6819
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 70 joined, 59 left.
Caliber
67mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 38 scored99
Titles held here
- Associate Consultant23
- Consultant19
- Senior Associate Consultant11
- Associate Consultant Intern7
- Manager7
- Senior Manager6
- Summer Associate3
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 32% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 13%Exceptional or strong5 people
- 18%Solid7 people
- 29%Emerging11 people
- 39%Unproven15 people
38 of the 74 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
5 of the 38 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 13%. 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.
70%Titles that rose38 of 54 classified people
- 70%Rose38 people
- 20%Stayed level11 people
- 9%Fell5 people
54 of the 74 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
- Stanford16.4%
- Harvard13.7%
- MIT12.3%
- Columbia9.6%
- Penn8.2%
- UC Berkeley6.9%
- UCLA6.9%
- Georgia Tech4.1%
The 8 most listed schools among the 73 people here with a school on file.
12 of the 73 people here with a school on file list Stanford, 10 list Harvard and 9 list MIT. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
16%have a public GitHub account on their profile
12 of the 74 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
43% of the people who have worked at Bain and list a location live in Los Angeles today, against 5% of everyone on the map.
Bain
Everyone on the map
- 43%Los Angeles32 · map 5%
- 22%New York16 · map 18%
- 22%SF Bay Area16 · map 41%
- 9%Washington DC7 · map 13%
- 4%Somewhere else3
All 74 people who worked at Bain 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 Bain: 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 Bain, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 74 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Bain: 14 are there now, 60 have moved on.
- Most arrive from Goldman Sachs: 3 people.
- Median tenure at Bain: 2y, middle half 1y 3m to 3y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Bain, 15% went to a founder title next, 19% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 9% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 67 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 38 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Associate Consultant, then Consultant.
- Top school: Stanford, listed by 12 of the 73 people here with one on file (16.4%). Then Harvard (10).
- 43% of the 74 people here who list a location live in Los Angeles today, against 5% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 16% of the 74 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 38 rose, 11 stayed level, 5 fell, out of the 54 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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