After Fractal
- 17%Joined a startup5
- 24%Joined a big company7
- 59%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Fractal most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 17% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 11m
Not Fractal's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 40 people on a map of 67,181, No. 599 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 400.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 923% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3178% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 11mmiddle half 1y 2m to 2y 5m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Fractal yet.
How long people stay
12%<1y
39%1-2y
42%2-4y
6%4-7y
0%7y+
33 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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<3<320
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2013 to 2026: 40 joined, 31 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (9).
Titles held here
- Machine Learning Engineer5
- Senior Data Scientist5
- AI3
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 20% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
32%Titles that rose8 of 25 classified people
- 32%Rose8 people
- 28%Stayed level7 people
- 40%Fell10 people
25 of the 40 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 Tech7.7%
- University of Mumbai7.7%
The 2 most listed schools among the 39 people here with a school on file.
3 of the 39 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech and 3 list University of Mumbai. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
18%have a public GitHub account on their profile
7 of the 40 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
33% of the people who have worked at Fractal and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Fractal
Everyone on the map
- 33%SF Bay Area13 · map 41%
- 28%New York11 · map 18%
- 8%Dallas-Fort Worth3 · map 0.9%
- 8%Seattle3 · map 5%
- 25%Somewhere else10
All 40 people who worked at Fractal 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 Fractal: 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 Fractal, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 40 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Fractal: 9 are there now, 31 have moved on.
- Median tenure at Fractal: 1y 11m, middle half 1y 2m to 2y 5m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Fractal, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 17% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 24% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Machine Learning Engineer, then Senior Data Scientist.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 3 of the 39 people here with one on file (7.7%). Then University of Mumbai (3).
- 33% of the 40 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.
- 18% of the 40 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 8 rose, 7 stayed level, 10 fell, out of the 25 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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