After Box
- 5%Founded something3
- 14%Joined a startup8
- 23%Joined a big company13
- 58%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Box most often go to Palantir Technologies and Meta. 5% found something next. 14% go small. Median stay 2y 8m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Box's headcount: 71 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 132 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 710.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1014% of the people here
- Moved on
- 6186% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 8mmiddle half 2y to 3y 6m
Put Box 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 Microsoft. Most leave for Palantir Technologies (8% of recorded departures).
4 of 67 recorded arrivals shown, 63 more from 58 other companies9 of 60 recorded departures shown, 51 more to 47 other companies
How long people stay
3%<1y
22%1-2y
53%2-4y
15%4-7y
7%7y+
60 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
3212
4113
13514
10915
3716
5917
13818
8719
4520
3921
5422
3323
1024
1325
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 76 joined, 72 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 71 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer23
- Software Engineer19
- Software Engineer Intern18
- Staff Software Engineer4
- Engineering Manager3
- Senior Engineering Manager3
- Software Engineer III3
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 17% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 7%Exceptional5 people
- 20%Strong14 people
- 37%Solid26 people
- 36%Emerging25 people
70 of the 71 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 19 of the 70 people here with a read sit in them, 27%. A tier is the band an Eng Scorer caliber score falls in, so this is the same measurement as the median on the caliber card, opened up.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
47%Titles that rose29 of 62 classified people
- 47%Rose29 people
- 48%Stayed level30 people
- 5%Fell3 people
62 of the 71 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 who recorded one title here and then left, it is 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. A title that matches no rung is left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely, being a different ladder. That leaves 62 of the 71 people here classified, and it leans towards people who have left: someone still here on a single recorded title has nothing to be measured against.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley20.3%
- Stanford7.3%
- UIUC5.8%
- USC5.8%
- Cornell4.4%
- Duke4.4%
- MIT4.4%
- UC San Diego4.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 69 people here with a school on file.
Of the 69 people here with a school on file, 14 list UC Berkeley, 5 list Stanford and 4 list UIUC. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
51%have a public GitHub account on their profile
36 of the 70 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check did not find reads the same as no account, so this is a floor rather than a census.
Across the 325 companies on the map that can show this figure, the median is 38%.
Where they are now
80% of the people who have worked at Box and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Box
Everyone on the map
- 80%SF Bay Area56 · map 47%
- 13%New York9 · map 33%
- 6%Los Angeles4 · map 6%
70 of the 71 people who worked at Box list a location, and every share here is over those 70.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Box: 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 Box, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 71 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Box: 10 are there now and 61 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Box is Palantir Technologies (5 people, 8% of recorded departures), followed by Meta.
- The most common previous employer before Box is Microsoft (4 people).
- The median tenure at Box is 2y 8m (middle half 2y to 3y 6m).
- Of those who moved on from Box, 5% went on to a founder title, 14% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 23% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Box is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (71 scored).
- The most common title held at Box is Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 69 people here with a school on file, 14 list UC Berkeley (20.3%), then Stanford (5). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 80% of the 70 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.
- 51% of the 70 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 62 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 29 rose, 30 stayed level and 3 fell.
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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