After BlackBerry
- 18%Joined a startup12
- 32%Joined a big company21
- 50%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave BlackBerry most often go to Microsoft, Amazon and IBM. Of them, 18% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 4m
Not BlackBerry's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 68 people on a map of 67,181, No. 350 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 680.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 00% of the people here
- Moved on
- 68100% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 4mmiddle half 3m to 1y 4m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from IBM. Most leave for Microsoft (7% of recorded departures).
3 of 42 recorded arrivals shown, 39 more from 38 other companies12 of 69 recorded departures shown, 57 more to 55 other companies
How long people stay
64%<1y
15%1-2y
13%2-4y
8%4-7y
0%7y+
39 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
3512
6613
3314
7815
6516
3317
<3<318
3319
3320
4521
<3<322
<3023
0<324
0<325
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 43 joined, 47 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%91
0Eng Scorer caliber, 36 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Developer13
- Software Engineer Intern6
- Software Development Intern5
- Software Engineer3
4 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.
- 25%Exceptional or strong9 people
- 42%Solid15 people
- 33%Emerging or unproven12 people
36 of the 68 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
9 of the 36 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 25%. 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.
27%Titles that rose16 of 59 classified people
- 27%Rose16 people
- 59%Stayed level35 people
- 14%Fell8 people
59 of the 68 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
- University of Waterloo44.8%
- University of Toronto6.0%
- Florida International University4.5%
- UC Berkeley4.5%
The 4 most listed schools among the 67 people here with a school on file.
30 of the 67 people here with a school on file list University of Waterloo, 4 list University of Toronto and 3 list Florida International University. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
49%have a public GitHub account on their profile
33 of the 68 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
40% of the people who have worked at BlackBerry and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
BlackBerry
Everyone on the map
- 40%SF Bay Area27 · map 41%
- 32%New York22 · map 18%
- 9%Seattle6 · map 5%
- 4%Washington DC3 · map 13%
- 15%Somewhere else10
All 68 people who worked at BlackBerry 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 BlackBerry: 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 BlackBerry, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 68 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at BlackBerry: 0 are there now, 68 have moved on.
- Most leave for Microsoft: 5 people, 7% of recorded departures. Then Amazon and IBM.
- Most arrive from IBM: 3 people.
- Median tenure at BlackBerry: 4m, middle half 3m to 1y 4m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after BlackBerry, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 18% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 32% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 36 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Developer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: University of Waterloo, listed by 30 of the 67 people here with one on file (44.8%). Then University of Toronto (4).
- 40% of the 68 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.
- 49% of the 68 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 16 rose, 35 stayed level, 8 fell, out of the 59 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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