After EPFL
- 26%Joined a startup7
- 41%Joined a big company11
- 33%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave EPFL most often go to Google. Of them, 26% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 9m
Not EPFL's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 41 people on a map of 67,181, No. 587 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 410.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 00% of the people here
- Moved on
- 41100% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 9mmiddle half 3m to 1y 11m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne). Most leave for Google (11% of recorded departures).
6 of 25 recorded arrivals shown, 19 more from 19 other companies3 of 27 recorded departures shown, 24 more to 22 other companies
How long people stay
60%<1y
13%1-2y
13%2-4y
10%4-7y
3%7y+
30 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
2012 to 2026: 33 joined, 36 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (18).
Titles held here
- Research Intern8
- Teaching Assistant3
2 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 44% of people here.
Where they studied
- École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne34.2%
- Stanford22.0%
- Carnegie Mellon17.1%
- UC Berkeley7.3%
- UIUC7.3%
- Université Paris-Saclay7.3%
The 6 most listed schools among the 41 people here with a school on file.
14 of the 41 people here with a school on file list École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne, 9 list Stanford and 7 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
34%have a public GitHub account on their profile
14 of the 41 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
56% of the people who have worked at EPFL and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
EPFL
Everyone on the map
- 56%SF Bay Area23 · map 41%
- 12%New York5 · map 18%
- 7%Washington DC3 · map 13%
- 24%Somewhere else10
All 41 people who worked at EPFL 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 EPFL: 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 EPFL, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 41 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at EPFL: 0 are there now, 41 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 3 people, 11% of recorded departures.
- Most arrive from EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne): 3 people. Then Google.
- Median tenure at EPFL: 9m, middle half 3m to 1y 11m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after EPFL, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 26% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 41% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Research Intern, then Teaching Assistant.
- Top school: École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne, listed by 14 of the 41 people here with one on file (34.2%). Then Stanford (9).
- 56% of the 41 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.
- 34% of the 41 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
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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