After Booz Allen
- 2%Founded something19
- 26%Joined a startup224
- 24%Joined a big company204
- 48%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Booz Allen most often go to Capital One, AWS and Microsoft. Of them, 26% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 4m
Not Booz Allen's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 1,513 people on a map of 67,181, No. 12 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1,5132.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 64743% of the people here
- Moved on
- 86657% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 4mmiddle half 1y 4m to 4y
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Lockheed Martin. Most leave for Capital One (3% of recorded departures).
178 of 1,407 recorded arrivals shown, 1,229 more from 940 other companies150 of 902 recorded departures shown, 752 more to 564 other companies
The Booz Allen mafia
19 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 2% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars cover the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
16%<1y
22%1-2y
36%2-4y
18%4-7y
7%7y+
1,495 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
282912
342313
423514
645215
754716
795517
835118
1147419
985920
1538921
17610722
1936723
1767724
10613125
704026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 1,491 joined, 936 left.
Caliber
62mediantop 10%80
0Eng Scorer caliber, 599 scored99
there now 58 moved on 67. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer278
- Data Scientist142
- Senior Consultant128
- Associate72
- Senior Software Engineer66
- Lead Engineer60
- Software Developer53
- Lead Software Engineer48
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 10% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 2%Exceptional or strong14 people
- 8%Solid49 people
- 44%Emerging264 people
- 45%Unproven272 people
599 of the 1,513 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
14 of the 599 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 2%. 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 rose343 of 996 classified people
- 34%Rose343 people
- 47%Stayed level466 people
- 19%Fell187 people
996 of the 1,513 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 Maryland12.2%
- Georgia Tech8.0%
- George Mason7.6%
- Virginia Tech5.9%
- Johns Hopkins5.7%
- University of Virginia5.1%
- George Washington3.9%
- Penn State2.9%
The 8 most listed schools among the 1,502 people here with a school on file.
183 of the 1,502 people here with a school on file list University of Maryland, 120 list Georgia Tech and 114 list George Mason. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
18%have a public GitHub account on their profile
266 of the 1,513 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
62% of the people who have worked at Booz Allen and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
Booz Allen
Everyone on the map
- 62%Washington DC940 · map 13%
- 5%New York83 · map 18%
- 4%SF Bay Area68 · map 41%
- 4%Baltimore57 · map 0.7%
- 2%Los Angeles26 · map 5%
- 1%Seattle22 · map 5%
- 0.8%Atlanta12 · map 1%
- 0.8%Denver12 · map 0.8%
- 19%Somewhere else293
All 1,513 people who worked at Booz Allen 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 Booz Allen: 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 Booz Allen, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 1,513 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Booz Allen: 647 are there now, 866 have moved on.
- Most leave for Capital One: 27 people, 3% of recorded departures. Then AWS and Microsoft.
- Most arrive from Lockheed Martin: 32 people. Then Northrop Grumman and CACI International.
- Median tenure at Booz Allen: 2y 4m, middle half 1y 4m to 4y.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Booz Allen, 2% went to a founder title next, 26% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 24% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 62 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 599 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Data Scientist.
- Top school: University of Maryland, listed by 183 of the 1,502 people here with one on file (12.2%). Then Georgia Tech (120).
- 62% of the 1,513 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.
- 18% of the 1,513 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 343 rose, 466 stayed level, 187 fell, out of the 996 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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