After Cognizant
- 12%Joined a startup32
- 39%Joined a big company105
- 49%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Cognizant most often go to Accenture, Capital One and JPMorganChase. Of them, 12% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 1m
Not Cognizant's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 308 people on a map of 67,181, No. 76 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 3080.5% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 186% of the people here
- Moved on
- 29094% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 1mmiddle half 1y 3m to 3y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Deloitte. Most leave for Accenture (4% of recorded departures).
28 of 153 recorded arrivals shown, 125 more from 119 other companies57 of 275 recorded departures shown, 218 more to 189 other companies
How long people stay
15%<1y
30%1-2y
41%2-4y
7%4-7y
7%7y+
303 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
12912
111313
111314
151815
12816
101217
261518
282519
341820
373321
254222
84123
121724
7625
0<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 248 joined, 272 left.
Caliber
71mediantop 10%82
0Eng Scorer caliber, 86 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer45
- Programmer Analyst41
- Associate23
- Machine Learning Engineer17
- Senior Associate16
- Data Engineer11
- Programmer Analyst Trainee11
- Software Developer10
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 48% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 16%Strong or solid14 people
- 72%Emerging62 people
- 12%Unproven10 people
86 of the 308 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Fewer than 3 of the 86 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, too few to print as a count. 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.
33%Titles that rose85 of 255 classified people
- 33%Rose85 people
- 50%Stayed level127 people
- 17%Fell43 people
255 of the 308 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
- Georgia Tech5.6%
- Anna University5.0%
- Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University4.3%
- UT Dallas3.6%
- George Mason3.3%
- UT Austin3.3%
- West Bengal University of Technology3.0%
- Vellore Institute of Technology2.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 302 people here with a school on file.
17 of the 302 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 15 list Anna University and 13 list Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
19%have a public GitHub account on their profile
59 of the 308 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
25% of the people who have worked at Cognizant and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Cognizant
Everyone on the map
- 25%SF Bay Area76 · map 41%
- 20%New York61 · map 18%
- 12%Washington DC37 · map 13%
- 6%Dallas-Fort Worth17 · map 0.9%
- 6%Seattle17 · map 5%
- 4%Atlanta12 · map 1%
- 2%Austin6 · map 0.8%
- 2%Chicago6 · map 0.6%
- 25%Somewhere else76
All 308 people who worked at Cognizant 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 Cognizant: 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 Cognizant, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 308 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Cognizant: 18 are there now, 290 have moved on.
- Most leave for Accenture: 11 people, 4% of recorded departures. Then Capital One and JPMorganChase.
- Most arrive from Deloitte: 5 people. Then Infosys and Wipro.
- Median tenure at Cognizant: 2y 1m, middle half 1y 3m to 3y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Cognizant, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 12% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 39% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 71 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 86 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Programmer Analyst.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 17 of the 302 people here with one on file (5.6%). Then Anna University (15).
- 25% of the 308 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.
- 19% of the 308 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 85 rose, 127 stayed level, 43 fell, out of the 255 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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