After Caterpillar
- 14%Joined a startup9
- 40%Joined a big company25
- 46%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Caterpillar most often go to Amazon and Meta. Of them, 14% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 4m
Not Caterpillar's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 70 people on a map of 67,181, No. 334 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 700.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 69% of the people here
- Moved on
- 6491% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 4mmiddle half 8m to 2y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Amazon (6% of recorded departures).
How long people stay
43%<1y
24%1-2y
18%2-4y
8%4-7y
6%7y+
49 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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4<314
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 72 joined, 68 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (22).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer6
- Embedded Software Engineer3
- Engineering Intern3
- Senior Software Engineer3
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 34% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
24%Titles that rose14 of 58 classified people
- 24%Rose14 people
- 67%Stayed level39 people
- 9%Fell5 people
58 of the 70 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
- UIUC34.3%
- Georgia Tech10.0%
- Purdue8.6%
- Carnegie Mellon4.3%
- Osmania University4.3%
The 5 most listed schools among the 70 people here with a school on file.
24 of the 70 people here with a school on file list UIUC, 7 list Georgia Tech and 6 list Purdue. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
23%have a public GitHub account on their profile
16 of the 70 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
33% of the people who have worked at Caterpillar and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Caterpillar
Everyone on the map
- 33%SF Bay Area23 · map 41%
- 16%Washington DC11 · map 13%
- 9%Seattle6 · map 5%
- 7%New York5 · map 18%
- 4%Chicago3 · map 0.6%
- 4%Los Angeles3 · map 5%
- 27%Somewhere else19
All 70 people who worked at Caterpillar 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 Caterpillar: 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 Caterpillar, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 70 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Caterpillar: 6 are there now, 64 have moved on.
- Most leave for Amazon: 4 people, 6% of recorded departures. Then Meta.
- Median tenure at Caterpillar: 1y 4m, middle half 8m to 2y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Caterpillar, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 14% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 40% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Embedded Software Engineer.
- Top school: UIUC, listed by 24 of the 70 people here with one on file (34.3%). Then Georgia Tech (7).
- 33% of the 70 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.
- 23% of the 70 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 14 rose, 39 stayed level, 5 fell, out of the 58 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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