After Cognizant
- 11%Joined a startup6
- 21%Joined a big company12
- 68%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Cognizant most often go to Capital One, JPMorganChase and Wells Fargo. 11% go small. Median stay 2y 11m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Cognizant's headcount: 69 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 137 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 690.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 69% of the people here
- Moved on
- 6391% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 11mmiddle half 1y 5m to 6y 3m
Put Cognizant 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 Infosys. Most leave for Capital One (7% of recorded departures).
3 of 36 recorded arrivals shown, 33 more from 31 other companies10 of 57 recorded departures shown, 47 more to 44 other companies
How long people stay
11%<1y
20%1-2y
34%2-4y
11%4-7y
23%7y+
70 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
5312
2413
3414
5915
3516
3117
6518
4719
2620
3621
2522
2223
1224
1025
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 42 joined, 59 left.
Caliber
71mediantop 10%82
0Eng Scorer caliber, 69 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Associate14
- Associate10
- Programmer Analyst8
- Software Engineer8
- Manager5
- Software Developer3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 45% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 17%Strong or solid12 people
- 74%Emerging51 people
- 9%Unproven6 people
69 of the 69 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. Fewer than 3 of the 69 people here with a read sit in them, which is too few to print as a count. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
46%Titles that rose26 of 57 classified people
- 46%Rose26 people
- 39%Stayed level22 people
- 16%Fell9 people
57 of the 69 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 57 of the 69 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
- West Bengal University of Technology7.6%
- BITS Pilani4.6%
- Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University4.6%
- Savitribai Phule Pune University4.6%
The 4 most listed schools among the 66 people here with a school on file.
Of the 66 people here with a school on file, 5 list West Bengal University of Technology, 3 list BITS Pilani and 3 list Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
12%have a public GitHub account on their profile
8 of the 69 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
62% of the people who have worked at Cognizant and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Cognizant
Everyone on the map
- 62%New York43 · map 33%
- 25%SF Bay Area17 · map 47%
- 4%Washington DC3 · map 7%
- 9%Somewhere else6
All 69 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 they worked at Cognizant: 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 Cognizant, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 69 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Cognizant: 6 are there now and 63 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Cognizant is Capital One (4 people, 7% of recorded departures), followed by JPMorganChase and Wells Fargo.
- The most common previous employer before Cognizant is Infosys (3 people).
- The median tenure at Cognizant is 2y 11m (middle half 1y 5m to 6y 3m).
- Of those who moved on from Cognizant, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 11% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 21% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Cognizant is 71 on the 0 to 99 scale (69 scored).
- The most common title held at Cognizant is Senior Associate, then Associate.
- Of the 66 people here with a school on file, 5 list West Bengal University of Technology (7.6%), then BITS Pilani (3). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 62% of the 69 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 12% of the 69 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 57 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 26 rose, 22 stayed level and 9 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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