After Celonis
- 19%Joined a startup3
- 50%Joined a big company8
- 31%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Celonis most often go to OpenAI. Of them, 19% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 7m
Not Celonis's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 28 people on a map of 67,181, No. 903 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 28Under 0.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1243% of the people here
- Moved on
- 1657% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 7mmiddle half 1y 4m to 3y
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for OpenAI (19% of recorded departures).
3 of 25 recorded arrivals shown, 22 more from 20 other companies3 of 16 recorded departures shown, 13 more to 12 other companies
How long people stay
22%<1y
15%1-2y
44%2-4y
15%4-7y
4%7y+
27 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
2017 to 2026: 29 joined, 17 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (11).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer9
- Staff Software Engineer6
- Senior Software Engineer3
- Senior Staff Software Engineer3
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 7% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
45%Titles that rose9 of 20 classified people
- 45%Rose9 people
- 40%Stayed level8 people
- 15%Fell3 people
20 of the 28 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
- Stanford17.9%
- Carnegie Mellon10.7%
- University of Waterloo10.7%
The 3 most listed schools among the 28 people here with a school on file.
5 of the 28 people here with a school on file list Stanford, 3 list Carnegie Mellon and 3 list University of Waterloo. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer here.
Where they are now
54% of the people who have worked at Celonis and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Celonis
Everyone on the map
- 54%SF Bay Area15 · map 41%
- 32%New York9 · map 18%
- 14%Somewhere else4
All 28 people who worked at Celonis 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 Celonis: 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 Celonis, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 28 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Celonis: 12 are there now, 16 have moved on.
- Most leave for OpenAI: 3 people, 19% of recorded departures.
- Most arrive from Google: 3 people.
- Median tenure at Celonis: 2y 7m, middle half 1y 4m to 3y.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Celonis, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 19% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 50% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Staff Software Engineer.
- Top school: Stanford, listed by 5 of the 28 people here with one on file (17.9%). Then Carnegie Mellon (3).
- 54% of the 28 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.
- 9 rose, 8 stayed level, 3 fell, out of the 20 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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