After Capital One
- 4%Founded something50
- 14%Joined a startup170
- 37%Joined a big company433
- 45%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Capital One most often go to Amazon, Meta and Google. Of them, 4% found something next and 14% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y
Not Capital One's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 1,828 people on a map of 67,181, No. 8 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1,8282.7% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 64435% of the people here
- Moved on
- 1,18465% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 1y 1m to 3y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Amazon (7% of recorded departures).
176 of 1,754 recorded arrivals shown, 1,578 more from 1,237 other companies379 of 1,260 recorded departures shown, 881 more to 665 other companies
The Capital One mafia
50 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 4% 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
19%<1y
28%1-2y
35%2-4y
13%4-7y
4%7y+
1,599 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
12312
6<313
21914
502115
843616
1337817
16910718
20913019
20616220
25424021
23019322
22715523
24115524
22815925
675026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 2,137 joined, 1,499 left.
Caliber
78mediantop 10%85
0Eng Scorer caliber, 769 scored99
there now 70 moved on 79. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer453
- Software Engineer Intern396
- Senior Software Engineer375
- Associate Software Engineer213
- Senior Associate Software Engineer117
- Lead Software Engineer98
- Data Engineer39
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer37
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 9% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 0%Exceptional3 people
- 7%Strong55 people
- 31%Solid235 people
- 54%Emerging412 people
- 8%Unproven63 people
768 of the 1,828 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
58 of the 768 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 8%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
48%Titles that rose623 of 1,306 classified people
- 48%Rose623 people
- 42%Stayed level549 people
- 10%Fell134 people
1,306 of the 1,828 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 Tech11.9%
- University of Maryland8.4%
- University of Virginia6.3%
- Virginia Tech5.2%
- Carnegie Mellon4.4%
- UIUC3.8%
- George Mason3.3%
- UC Berkeley2.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 1,805 people here with a school on file.
214 of the 1,805 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 152 list University of Maryland and 113 list University of Virginia. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
25%have a public GitHub account on their profile
456 of the 1,827 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
39% of the people who have worked at Capital One and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
Capital One
Everyone on the map
- 39%Washington DC704 · map 13%
- 26%New York466 · map 18%
- 19%SF Bay Area338 · map 41%
- 2%Seattle40 · map 5%
- 2%Dallas-Fort Worth36 · map 0.9%
- 1%Boston22 · map 2%
- 1%Richmond19
- 1.0%Chicago18 · map 0.6%
- 10%Somewhere else184
1,827 of the 1,828 people who worked at Capital One list a location, and every share here is over those 1,827.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Capital One: 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 Capital One, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 1,828 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Capital One: 644 are there now, 1,184 have moved on.
- Most leave for Amazon: 91 people, 7% of recorded departures. Then Meta and Google.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 38 people. Then Booz Allen and AWS.
- Median tenure at Capital One: 2y, middle half 1y 1m to 3y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Capital One, 4% went to a founder title next, 14% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 37% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 78 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 769 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 214 of the 1,805 people here with one on file (11.9%). Then University of Maryland (152).
- 39% of the 1,827 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.
- 25% of the 1,827 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 623 rose, 549 stayed level, 134 fell, out of the 1,306 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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