After Cisco Meraki
- 14%Joined a startup11
- 26%Joined a big company21
- 60%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Cisco Meraki most often go to Microsoft, Samsara and Google. Of them, 14% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 6m
Not Cisco Meraki's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 95 people on a map of 67,181, No. 245 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026. Cisco Meraki sits inside Cisco. The map keeps them apart because each hires under its own name, and flags the moves between them instead of counting them as a change of employer.
- People on the map
- 950.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1516% of the people here
- Moved on
- 8084% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 6mmiddle half 1y 2m to 4y 3m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Microsoft (6% of recorded departures). Cisco Meraki and Cisco are one company kept apart here, so the ribbon between them is a transfer inside one company.
5 of 91 recorded arrivals shown, 86 more from 77 other companies17 of 83 recorded departures shown, 66 more to 56 other companies
How long people stay
18%<1y
20%1-2y
34%2-4y
23%4-7y
5%7y+
65 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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4014
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8416
7917
141018
8919
101220
13821
9922
16923
4924
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2013 to 2026: 100 joined, 87 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 65 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer30
- Software Engineer Intern16
- Senior Software Engineer14
- Member of Technical Staff5
- Engineering Manager3
- Firmware Engineering Intern3
- Full Stack Engineer3
- Full Stack Intern3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 8% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 20%Strong13 people
- 35%Solid23 people
- 45%Emerging or unproven29 people
65 of the 95 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
13 of the 65 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 20%. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
32%Titles that rose26 of 81 classified people
- 32%Rose26 people
- 58%Stayed level47 people
- 10%Fell8 people
81 of the 95 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
- UC Berkeley23.7%
- Carnegie Mellon10.8%
- University of Waterloo10.8%
- Georgia Tech8.6%
- Stanford5.4%
- Cornell4.3%
- Caltech3.2%
- MIT3.2%
The 8 most listed schools among the 93 people here with a school on file.
22 of the 93 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 10 list Carnegie Mellon and 10 list University of Waterloo. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
43%have a public GitHub account on their profile
41 of the 95 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
71% of the people who have worked at Cisco Meraki and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Cisco Meraki
Everyone on the map
- 71%SF Bay Area67 · map 41%
- 19%New York18 · map 18%
- 11%Somewhere else10
All 95 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 working at Cisco Meraki: 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 Cisco Meraki, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 95 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Cisco Meraki: 15 are there now, 80 have moved on.
- Most leave for Microsoft: 5 people, 6% of recorded departures. Then Samsara and Google.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 5 people.
- Cisco Meraki and Cisco are one company here, kept apart because each hires under its own name.
- Median tenure at Cisco Meraki: 2y 6m, middle half 1y 2m to 4y 3m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Cisco Meraki, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 14% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 26% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 65 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 22 of the 93 people here with one on file (23.7%). Then Carnegie Mellon (10).
- 71% of the 95 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.
- 43% of the 95 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 26 rose, 47 stayed level, 8 fell, out of the 81 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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