After Dell
- 2%Founded something5
- 16%Joined a startup47
- 35%Joined a big company100
- 47%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Dell most often go to Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Of them, 16% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 2m
Not Dell's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 347 people on a map of 67,181, No. 65 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 3470.5% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 4112% of the people here
- Moved on
- 30688% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 2mmiddle half 1y 2m to 3y 9m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Amazon (8% of recorded departures).
22 of 234 recorded arrivals shown, 212 more from 201 other companies71 of 302 recorded departures shown, 231 more to 204 other companies
How long people stay
18%<1y
25%1-2y
33%2-4y
17%4-7y
6%7y+
281 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
151512
121013
161714
281815
272616
212117
322318
292719
292520
323921
293622
202023
182124
10725
3426
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 321 joined, 309 left.
Caliber
77mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 131 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer65
- Software Engineer Intern50
- Senior Software Engineer31
- Software Engineer II27
- Principal Software Engineer17
- Software Engineer I14
- Software Developer8
- Senior Principal Software Engineer7
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 32% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 11%Strong14 people
- 27%Solid35 people
- 55%Emerging72 people
- 8%Unproven10 people
131 of the 347 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
14 of the 131 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 11%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
38%Titles that rose104 of 276 classified people
- 38%Rose104 people
- 50%Stayed level137 people
- 13%Fell35 people
276 of the 347 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 Tech9.6%
- UT Austin6.9%
- Northeastern4.5%
- UC Berkeley3.6%
- Carnegie Mellon3.0%
- San Jose State3.0%
- Stanford3.0%
- Texas A&M2.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 333 people here with a school on file.
32 of the 333 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 23 list UT Austin and 15 list Northeastern. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
26%have a public GitHub account on their profile
89 of the 347 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
32% of the people who have worked at Dell and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Dell
Everyone on the map
- 32%SF Bay Area111 · map 41%
- 14%New York48 · map 18%
- 9%Washington DC32 · map 13%
- 7%Austin26 · map 0.8%
- 7%Seattle26 · map 5%
- 5%Los Angeles16 · map 5%
- 4%Dallas-Fort Worth14 · map 0.9%
- 3%Boston12 · map 2%
- 18%Somewhere else62
All 347 people who worked at Dell 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 Dell: 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 Dell, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 347 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Dell: 41 are there now, 306 have moved on.
- Most leave for Amazon: 25 people, 8% of recorded departures. Then Microsoft and Google.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 6 people. Then NetApp and AMD.
- Median tenure at Dell: 2y 2m, middle half 1y 2m to 3y 9m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Dell, 2% went to a founder title next, 16% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 35% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 77 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 131 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 32 of the 333 people here with one on file (9.6%). Then UT Austin (23).
- 32% of the 347 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.
- 26% of the 347 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 104 rose, 137 stayed level, 35 fell, out of the 276 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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