After Cadence Design Systems
- 19%Joined a startup13
- 51%Joined a big company35
- 29%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Cadence Design Systems most often go to Meta, Google and Synopsys. Of them, 19% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 11m
Not Cadence Design Systems's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 90 people on a map of 67,181, No. 262 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 900.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1517% of the people here
- Moved on
- 7583% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 11mmiddle half 1y 6m to 3y 9m
Put Cadence Design Systems side by side with another employer.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Synopsys. Most leave for Meta (15% of recorded departures).
3 of 62 recorded arrivals shown, 59 more from 53 other companies21 of 72 recorded departures shown, 51 more to 47 other companies
How long people stay
11%<1y
23%1-2y
44%2-4y
17%4-7y
6%7y+
66 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 83 joined, 74 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (27).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern18
- Lead Software Engineer16
- Software Engineer12
- Software Engineer II10
- Principal Software Engineer8
- Member of Consulting Staff4
- Machine Learning Intern3
- Senior Principal Software Engineer3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 22% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
38%Titles that rose26 of 69 classified people
- 38%Rose26 people
- 42%Stayed level29 people
- 20%Fell14 people
69 of the 90 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
- Carnegie Mellon14.4%
- MIT12.2%
- Stanford10.0%
- UC Berkeley7.8%
- USC5.6%
- UT Austin4.4%
- Georgia Tech3.3%
- National Taiwan University3.3%
The 8 most listed schools among the 90 people here with a school on file.
13 of the 90 people here with a school on file list Carnegie Mellon, 11 list MIT and 9 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
22%have a public GitHub account on their profile
20 of the 90 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
70% of the people who have worked at Cadence Design Systems and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Cadence Design Systems
Everyone on the map
- 70%SF Bay Area63 · map 41%
- 6%New York5 · map 18%
- 4%Seattle4 · map 5%
- 4%Washington DC4 · map 13%
- 3%Boston3 · map 2%
- 3%Los Angeles3 · map 5%
- 9%Somewhere else8
All 90 people who worked at Cadence Design Systems 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 Cadence Design Systems: 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 Cadence Design Systems, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 90 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Cadence Design Systems: 15 are there now, 75 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 11 people, 15% of recorded departures. Then Google and Synopsys.
- Most arrive from Synopsys: 3 people.
- Median tenure at Cadence Design Systems: 2y 11m, middle half 1y 6m to 3y 9m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Cadence Design Systems, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 19% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 51% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer Intern, then Lead Software Engineer.
- Top school: Carnegie Mellon, listed by 13 of the 90 people here with one on file (14.4%). Then MIT (11).
- 70% of the 90 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.
- 22% of the 90 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 26 rose, 29 stayed level, 14 fell, out of the 69 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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