After Cisco Meraki
- 7%Joined a startup3
- 20%Joined a big company9
- 74%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Cisco Meraki most often go to Microsoft, Samsara and Google. Median stay 2y 10m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Cisco Meraki's headcount: 57 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 160 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026. Cisco Meraki sits inside Cisco. The map keeps the two apart because each hires under its own name, and marks every move between them rather than counting it as a change of employer.
- People on the map
- 570.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1221% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4579% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 10mmiddle half 1y 3m to 4y 1m
Put Cisco Meraki 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 Microsoft (8% of recorded departures).
3 of 56 recorded arrivals shown, 53 more from 49 other companies11 of 48 recorded departures shown, 37 more to 30 other companies
How long people stay
13%<1y
21%1-2y
39%2-4y
21%4-7y
5%7y+
38 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
0012
1113
4014
0015
7416
4717
9618
6619
6920
9521
5522
10323
1424
1025
0226
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 63 joined, 52 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 57 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer20
- Software Engineer Intern12
- Senior Software Engineer5
- Full Stack Software Engineering Intern3
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 12% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 21%Strong12 people
- 39%Solid22 people
- 40%Emerging23 people
57 of the 57 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 12 of the 57 people here with a read sit in them, 21%. 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.
34%Titles that rose16 of 47 classified people
- 34%Rose16 people
- 60%Stayed level28 people
- 6%Fell3 people
47 of the 57 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 47 of the 57 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
- UC Berkeley29.1%
- University of Waterloo10.9%
- Carnegie Mellon7.3%
- Georgia Tech7.3%
- Caltech5.5%
- Stanford5.5%
- UCLA5.5%
The 7 most listed schools among the 55 people here with a school on file.
Of the 55 people here with a school on file, 16 list UC Berkeley, 6 list University of Waterloo and 4 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
46%have a public GitHub account on their profile
26 of the 57 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
72% of the people who have worked at Cisco Meraki and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Cisco Meraki
Everyone on the map
- 72%SF Bay Area41 · map 47%
- 23%New York13 · map 33%
- 5%Somewhere else3
All 57 people who worked at Cisco Meraki 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 they worked at Cisco Meraki: 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 Cisco Meraki, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 57 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Cisco Meraki: 12 are there now and 45 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Cisco Meraki is Microsoft (4 people, 8% of recorded departures), followed by Samsara and Google.
- The most common previous employer before Cisco Meraki is Amazon (3 people).
- The median tenure at Cisco Meraki is 2y 10m (middle half 1y 3m to 4y 1m).
- Of those who moved on from Cisco Meraki, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 7% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 20% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Cisco Meraki is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (57 scored).
- The most common title held at Cisco Meraki is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 55 people here with a school on file, 16 list UC Berkeley (29.1%), then University of Waterloo (6). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 72% of the 57 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 46% of the 57 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 47 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 16 rose, 28 stayed level and 3 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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