After Five Rings
- 20%Joined a startup8
- 15%Joined a big company6
- 65%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Five Rings most often go to Meta and Citadel Securities. 20% go small. Median stay 2y 11m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Five Rings's headcount: 69 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 138 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 690.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3246% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3754% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 11mmiddle half 1y 7m to 4y
Put Five Rings 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. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for Meta (10% of recorded departures).
20 of 75 recorded arrivals shown, 55 more from 46 other companies7 of 41 recorded departures shown, 34 more to 31 other companies
How long people stay
13%<1y
19%1-2y
40%2-4y
27%4-7y
0%7y+
52 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
2112
0013
0014
0015
2216
3217
0118
5319
4520
12721
17722
25723
8724
6925
0126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 84 joined, 52 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%91
0Eng Scorer caliber, 69 scored99
there now 83 moved on 87. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Developer38
- Software Development Intern16
- Software Engineer Intern14
- Software Engineer7
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 3% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 4%Exceptional3 people
- 28%Strong19 people
- 48%Solid33 people
- 20%Emerging or unproven14 people
69 of the 69 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 22 of the 69 people here with a read sit in them, 32%. A tier is the band an Eng Scorer 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 together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
36%Titles that rose16 of 44 classified people
- 36%Rose16 people
- 64%Stayed level or fell28 people
44 of the 69 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 who recorded one title here and then left, it is 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. A title that matches no rung is left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely, being a different ladder. That leaves 44 of the 69 people here classified, and it leans towards people who have left: someone still here on a single recorded title has nothing to be measured against. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- MIT38.2%
- Penn14.7%
- Princeton14.7%
- University of Michigan8.8%
- Johns Hopkins4.4%
- Stanford4.4%
The 6 most listed schools among the 68 people here with a school on file.
Of the 68 people here with a school on file, 26 list MIT, 10 list Penn and 10 list Princeton. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
13%have a public GitHub account on their profile
9 of the 69 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check did not find reads the same as no account, so this is a floor rather than a census.
Across the 325 companies on the map that can show this figure, the median is 38%.
Where they are now
74% of the people who have worked at Five Rings and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Five Rings
Everyone on the map
- 74%New York51 · map 33%
- 22%SF Bay Area15 · map 47%
- 4%Somewhere else3
All 69 people who worked at Five Rings 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 Five Rings: 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 Five Rings, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 69 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Five Rings: 32 are there now and 37 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Five Rings is Meta (4 people, 10% of recorded departures), followed by Citadel Securities.
- The most common previous employer before Five Rings is Meta (10 people), followed by Hudson River Trading and Amazon.
- The median tenure at Five Rings is 2y 11m (middle half 1y 7m to 4y).
- Of those who moved on from Five Rings, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 20% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 15% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Five Rings is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (69 scored).
- The most common title held at Five Rings is Software Developer, then Software Development Intern.
- Of the 68 people here with a school on file, 26 list MIT (38.2%), then Penn (10). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 74% of the 69 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 13% of the 69 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
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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