After Collins Aerospace
- 17%Joined a startup13
- 47%Joined a big company36
- 36%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Collins Aerospace most often go to Lockheed Martin, Amazon and AWS. Of them, 17% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 1m
Not Collins Aerospace's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 118 people on a map of 67,181, No. 199 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1180.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3933% of the people here
- Moved on
- 7967% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 1mmiddle half 1y to 3y 4m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Raytheon. Most leave for Lockheed Martin (7% of recorded departures).
15 of 100 recorded arrivals shown, 85 more from 76 other companies21 of 83 recorded departures shown, 62 more to 53 other companies
How long people stay
25%<1y
21%1-2y
38%2-4y
10%4-7y
6%7y+
89 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3013
<3014
<3015
4016
5<317
7318
121019
161220
181821
181622
211223
151124
81125
6<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2013 to 2026: 133 joined, 95 left.
Caliber
70mediantop 10%83
0Eng Scorer caliber, 43 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer31
- Senior Software Engineer21
- Software Engineer Intern21
- Software Engineer II9
- Principal Software Engineer5
- Software Engineer Co-Op5
- Data Science Intern3
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 13% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 19%Strong or solid8 people
- 65%Emerging28 people
- 16%Unproven7 people
43 of the 118 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Fewer than 3 of the 43 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.
46%Titles that rose40 of 87 classified people
- 46%Rose40 people
- 43%Stayed level37 people
- 11%Fell10 people
87 of the 118 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 Tech16.1%
- University of Iowa7.6%
- Virginia Tech6.8%
- UIUC5.9%
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University3.4%
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology3.4%
- Iowa State University2.5%
- UC Berkeley2.5%
The 8 most listed schools among the 118 people here with a school on file.
19 of the 118 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 9 list University of Iowa and 8 list Virginia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
13%have a public GitHub account on their profile
15 of the 118 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
31% of the people who have worked at Collins Aerospace and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
Collins Aerospace
Everyone on the map
- 31%Washington DC36 · map 13%
- 19%SF Bay Area22 · map 41%
- 8%New York10 · map 18%
- 6%Dallas-Fort Worth7 · map 0.9%
- 4%Baltimore5 · map 0.7%
- 4%Iowa City5
- 3%Los Angeles4 · map 5%
- 3%Chicago3 · map 0.6%
- 22%Somewhere else26
All 118 people who worked at Collins Aerospace 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 Collins Aerospace: 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 Collins Aerospace, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 118 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Collins Aerospace: 39 are there now, 79 have moved on.
- Most leave for Lockheed Martin: 6 people, 7% of recorded departures. Then Amazon and AWS.
- Most arrive from Raytheon: 6 people. Then Rockwell Collins and Lockheed Martin.
- Median tenure at Collins Aerospace: 2y 1m, middle half 1y to 3y 4m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Collins Aerospace, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 17% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 47% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 70 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 43 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 19 of the 118 people here with one on file (16.1%). Then University of Iowa (9).
- 31% of the 118 people here who list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 13% of the 118 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 40 rose, 37 stayed level, 10 fell, out of the 87 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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