After Blue Origin
- 29%Joined a startup5
- 71%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Blue Origin most often go to a long tail of companies. 29% go small
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Blue Origin's headcount: 23 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 417 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 230.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 522% of the people here
- Moved on
- 1878% of the people here
- Median tenure
- –only 19 stays here have both a start and an end on the record, too few to take a median from
Put Blue Origin 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 SpaceX.
19 recorded departures to 17 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them
3SpaceX3 of 24 recorded arrivals shown, 21 more from 19 other companies0 of 19 recorded departures shown, 19 more to 17 other companies
How long people stay
42%<1y
26%1-2y
21%2-4y
11%4-7y
0%7y+
19 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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0013
0014
1015
1016
3217
3218
2219
3320
1221
4322
2323
2324
2025
1026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 25 joined, 20 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (23).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer3
1 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 9% of people here.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley13.0%
- University of Michigan13.0%
The 2 most listed schools among the 23 people here with a school on file.
Of the 23 people here with a school on file, 3 list UC Berkeley and 3 list University of Michigan. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer than that here.
Where they are now
52% of the people who have worked at Blue Origin and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Blue Origin
Everyone on the map
- 52%SF Bay Area12 · map 47%
- 17%Seattle4 · map 3%
- 13%Los Angeles3 · map 6%
- 17%Somewhere else4
All 23 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 they worked at Blue Origin: 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 Blue Origin, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 23 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Blue Origin: 5 are there now and 18 have moved on.
- The most common previous employer before Blue Origin is SpaceX (3 people).
- Of those who moved on from Blue Origin, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 29% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and fewer than 3 joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The most common title held at Blue Origin is Software Engineer.
- Of the 23 people here with a school on file, 3 list UC Berkeley (13.0%), then University of Michigan (3). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 52% of the 23 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
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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