After FIRST
- 28%Joined a startup5
- 17%Joined a big company3
- 56%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave FIRST most often go to a long tail of companies. 28% go small. Median stay 1y 10m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not FIRST's headcount: 22 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 441 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 220.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 15% of the people here
- Moved on
- 2195% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 10mmiddle half 8m to 3y 9m
Put FIRST 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.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for FIRST yet.
How long people stay
36%<1y
14%1-2y
36%2-4y
9%4-7y
5%7y+
22 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
0012
2013
0014
3015
5216
3417
3318
1419
1220
2421
0222
1023
0024
0025
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 21 joined, 21 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (22).
Titles held here
No titles on the record yet.
First job on the record for 59% of people here.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley22.7%
The one school among the 22 people here with a school on file.
Of the 22 people here with a school on file, 5 list UC Berkeley.
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 than that here.
Where they are now
41% of the people who have worked at FIRST and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
FIRST
Everyone on the map
- 41%SF Bay Area9 · map 47%
- 27%New York6 · map 33%
- 18%Washington DC4 · map 7%
- 14%Somewhere else3
All 22 people who worked at FIRST 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 FIRST: 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 FIRST, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 22 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at FIRST: 1 are there now and 21 have moved on.
- The median tenure at FIRST is 1y 10m (middle half 8m to 3y 9m).
- Of those who moved on from FIRST, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 28% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 17% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- Of the 22 people here with a school on file, 5 list UC Berkeley (22.7%). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 41% of the 22 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
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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