After Best Buy
- 3%Founded something3
- 24%Joined a startup21
- 27%Joined a big company24
- 46%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Best Buy most often go to Apple and Geek Squad. Of them, 3% found something next and 24% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 8m
Not Best Buy's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 112 people on a map of 67,181, No. 207 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1120.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 87% of the people here
- Moved on
- 10493% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 8mmiddle half 1y to 2y 5m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Geek Squad. Most leave for Apple (4% of recorded departures).
3 of 61 recorded arrivals shown, 58 more from 57 other companies8 of 91 recorded departures shown, 83 more to 80 other companies
How long people stay
23%<1y
42%1-2y
25%2-4y
6%4-7y
4%7y+
109 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
7<312
7813
9714
5515
6616
14717
101118
71219
7720
13821
9822
31023
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4425
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 103 joined, 101 left.
Caliber
70mediantop 10%85
0Eng Scorer caliber, 42 scored99
Titles held here
- Sales Associate12
- Sales Consultant8
- Senior Software Engineer4
- Software Engineer4
- Software Engineer II4
- Associate Software Engineer3
- Customer Experience Specialist3
- Data Scientist3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 46% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 24%Strong or solid10 people
- 52%Emerging22 people
- 24%Unproven10 people
42 of the 112 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Fewer than 3 of the 42 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.
34%Titles that rose23 of 67 classified people
- 34%Rose23 people
- 39%Stayed level26 people
- 27%Fell18 people
67 of the 112 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 Tech7.6%
- George Mason6.7%
- University of Maryland4.8%
- Ohio State3.8%
- Johns Hopkins2.9%
- Northern Virginia Community College2.9%
- University at Buffalo2.9%
- University of Minnesota2.9%
The 8 most listed schools among the 105 people here with a school on file.
8 of the 105 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 7 list George Mason and 5 list University of Maryland. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
21%have a public GitHub account on their profile
24 of the 112 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
21% of the people who have worked at Best Buy and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
Best Buy
Everyone on the map
- 21%Washington DC23 · map 13%
- 15%New York17 · map 18%
- 14%SF Bay Area16 · map 41%
- 8%Minneapolis9
- 5%Seattle6 · map 5%
- 4%Dallas-Fort Worth4 · map 0.9%
- 4%Los Angeles4 · map 5%
- 29%Somewhere else33
All 112 people who worked at Best Buy 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 Best Buy: 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 Best Buy, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 112 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Best Buy: 8 are there now, 104 have moved on.
- Most leave for Apple: 4 people, 4% of recorded departures. Then Geek Squad.
- Most arrive from Geek Squad: 3 people.
- Median tenure at Best Buy: 1y 8m, middle half 1y to 2y 5m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Best Buy, 3% went to a founder title next, 24% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 27% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 70 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 42 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Sales Associate, then Sales Consultant.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 8 of the 105 people here with one on file (7.6%). Then George Mason (7).
- 21% of the 112 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.
- 21% of the 112 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 23 rose, 26 stayed level, 18 fell, out of the 67 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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