After Blue Origin
- 15%Joined a startup8
- 29%Joined a big company15
- 56%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Blue Origin most often go to Anduril Industries, Microsoft and SpaceX. Of them, 15% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 3m
Not Blue Origin's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 82 people on a map of 67,181, No. 284 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 820.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 2733% of the people here
- Moved on
- 5567% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 3mmiddle half 9m to 3y 3m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Microsoft. Most leave for Anduril Industries (9% of recorded departures).
15 of 90 recorded arrivals shown, 75 more from 70 other companies11 of 58 recorded departures shown, 47 more to 42 other companies
How long people stay
35%<1y
32%1-2y
21%2-4y
11%4-7y
1%7y+
75 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3014
<3015
<3016
6317
5418
7619
9520
3821
16522
131023
81024
14825
5426
joined left2026 is a partial year
2014 to 2026: 90 joined, 63 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (28).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer21
- Senior Software Engineer8
- Software Engineer Intern6
- Software Engineer II4
- Software Development Engineer3
- Software Engineer III3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 4% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
45%Titles that rose25 of 56 classified people
- 45%Rose25 people
- 48%Stayed level27 people
- 7%Fell4 people
56 of the 82 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 Tech18.3%
- UC Berkeley9.8%
- Carnegie Mellon8.5%
- University of Washington6.1%
- University of Michigan4.9%
- University of Wisconsin4.9%
- Texas A&M3.7%
- UCLA3.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 82 people here with a school on file.
15 of the 82 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 8 list UC Berkeley and 7 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
28%have a public GitHub account on their profile
23 of the 82 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
30% of the people who have worked at Blue Origin and list a location live in Seattle today, against 5% of everyone on the map.
Blue Origin
Everyone on the map
- 30%Seattle25 · map 5%
- 24%SF Bay Area20 · map 41%
- 10%Los Angeles8 · map 5%
- 6%Washington DC5 · map 13%
- 4%New York3 · map 18%
- 26%Somewhere else21
All 82 people who worked at Blue Origin 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 Blue Origin: 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 Blue Origin, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 82 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Blue Origin: 27 are there now, 55 have moved on.
- Most leave for Anduril Industries: 5 people, 9% of recorded departures. Then Microsoft and SpaceX.
- Most arrive from Microsoft: 5 people. Then SpaceX and Amazon.
- Median tenure at Blue Origin: 1y 3m, middle half 9m to 3y 3m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Blue Origin, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 15% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 29% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 15 of the 82 people here with one on file (18.3%). Then UC Berkeley (8).
- 30% of the 82 people here who list a location live in Seattle today, against 5% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 28% of the 82 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 25 rose, 27 stayed level, 4 fell, out of the 56 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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