After Discover
- 19%Joined a startup5
- 42%Joined a big company11
- 38%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Discover most often go to Capital One. Of them, 19% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 3m
Not Discover's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 28 people on a map of 67,181, No. 905 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 28Under 0.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 27% of the people here
- Moved on
- 2693% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 3mmiddle half 1y to 3y
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Capital One (11% of recorded departures).
26 recorded arrivals from 24 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 26 recorded arrivals shown, 26 more from 24 other companies3 of 28 recorded departures shown, 25 more to 22 other companies
How long people stay
21%<1y
21%1-2y
54%2-4y
4%4-7y
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24 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2013 to 2026: 30 joined, 28 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (4).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer4
1 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 14% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
48%Titles that rose11 of 23 classified people
- 48%Rose11 people
- 52%Stayed level or fell12 people
23 of the 28 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. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- UIUC11.5%
The one school among the 26 people here with a school on file.
3 of the 26 people here with a school on file list UIUC.
Public work
Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer here.
Where they are now
32% of the people who have worked at Discover and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
Discover
Everyone on the map
- 32%New York9 · map 18%
- 25%SF Bay Area7 · map 41%
- 11%Chicago3 · map 0.6%
- 11%Washington DC3 · map 13%
- 21%Somewhere else6
All 28 people who worked at Discover 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 Discover: 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 Discover, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 28 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Discover: 2 are there now, 26 have moved on.
- Most leave for Capital One: 3 people, 11% of recorded departures.
- Median tenure at Discover: 2y 3m, middle half 1y to 3y.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Discover, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 19% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 42% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer.
- Top school: UIUC, listed by 3 of the 26 people here with one on file (11.5%).
- 32% of the 28 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 18% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
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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