After Capital One
- 4%Founded something18
- 14%Joined a startup69
- 30%Joined a big company148
- 52%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Capital One most often go to Amazon, Meta and Google. 4% found something next. 14% go small. Median stay 2y
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Capital One's headcount: 663 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 11 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 6632.5% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 16625% of the people here
- Moved on
- 49775% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 1y to 3y 3m
Put Capital One 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 Amazon. Most leave for Amazon (8% of recorded departures).
53 of 619 recorded arrivals shown, 566 more from 502 other companies168 of 526 recorded departures shown, 358 more to 301 other companies
The Capital One mafia
18 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 are the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders count in the total.
How long people stay
21%<1y
26%1-2y
36%2-4y
14%4-7y
4%7y+
525 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1012
1013
6214
251415
382016
683817
705218
966719
977620
11611521
777422
725323
594924
454825
8726
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 779 joined, 615 left.
Caliber
78mediantop 10%85
0Eng Scorer caliber, 663 scored99
there now 72 moved on 81. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern206
- Software Engineer181
- Senior Software Engineer116
- Associate Software Engineer86
- Senior Associate Software Engineer44
- Lead Software Engineer35
- Engineering Manager23
- Data Engineer16
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 11% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 0%Exceptional3 people
- 8%Strong52 people
- 34%Solid223 people
- 55%Emerging362 people
- 3%Unproven22 people
662 of the 663 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 55 of the 662 people here with a read sit in them, 8%. 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.
46%Titles that rose247 of 541 classified people
- 46%Rose247 people
- 47%Stayed level255 people
- 7%Fell39 people
541 of the 663 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 541 of the 663 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
- University of Maryland7.3%
- Georgia Tech6.1%
- University of Virginia5.6%
- UIUC5.5%
- UC Berkeley4.4%
- University of Michigan4.4%
- Carnegie Mellon4.0%
- Virginia Tech3.8%
The 8 most listed schools among the 658 people here with a school on file.
Of the 658 people here with a school on file, 48 list University of Maryland, 40 list Georgia Tech and 37 list University of Virginia. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
32%have a public GitHub account on their profile
213 of the 662 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
50% of the people who have worked at Capital One and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Capital One
Everyone on the map
- 50%New York333 · map 33%
- 27%SF Bay Area176 · map 47%
- 17%Washington DC113 · map 7%
- 2%Seattle13 · map 3%
- 1%Los Angeles8 · map 6%
- 0.6%Austin4 · map 0.1%
- 2%Somewhere else15
662 of the 663 people who worked at Capital One list a location, and every share here is over those 662.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Capital One: 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 Capital One, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 663 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Capital One: 166 are there now and 497 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Capital One is Amazon (40 people, 8% of recorded departures), followed by Meta and Google.
- The most common previous employer before Capital One is Amazon (10 people), followed by IBM and Meta.
- The median tenure at Capital One is 2y (middle half 1y to 3y 3m).
- Of those who moved on from Capital One, 4% went on to a founder title, 14% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 30% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Capital One is 78 on the 0 to 99 scale (663 scored).
- The most common title held at Capital One is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 658 people here with a school on file, 48 list University of Maryland (7.3%), then Georgia Tech (40). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 50% of the 662 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 32% of the 662 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 541 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 247 rose, 255 stayed level and 39 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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