After Garmin
- 20%Joined a startup13
- 29%Joined a big company19
- 52%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Garmin most often go to Capital One. Of them, 20% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y
Not Garmin's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 71 people on a map of 67,181, No. 330 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 710.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 34% of the people here
- Moved on
- 6896% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 1y 3m to 3y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Capital One (4% of recorded departures).
51 recorded arrivals from 48 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 51 recorded arrivals shown, 51 more from 48 other companies3 of 69 recorded departures shown, 66 more to 62 other companies
How long people stay
18%<1y
30%1-2y
30%2-4y
15%4-7y
6%7y+
33 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3<312
4<313
3<314
4415
5516
10717
10818
61319
5620
8921
6622
3623
3<324
<3<325
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 70 joined, 70 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (29).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern36
- Software Engineer14
- Software Engineer II5
- Senior Software Engineer4
- Software Engineer I4
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 28% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
52%Titles that rose34 of 66 classified people
- 52%Rose34 people
- 48%Stayed level or fell32 people
66 of the 71 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
- Georgia Tech15.5%
- Arizona State9.9%
- University of Kansas7.0%
- University of Michigan7.0%
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln5.6%
- UC Irvine4.2%
- UIUC4.2%
The 7 most listed schools among the 71 people here with a school on file.
11 of the 71 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 7 list Arizona State and 5 list University of Kansas. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
32%have a public GitHub account on their profile
23 of the 71 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
30% of the people who have worked at Garmin and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Garmin
Everyone on the map
- 30%SF Bay Area21 · map 41%
- 20%New York14 · map 18%
- 11%Seattle8 · map 5%
- 8%Washington DC6 · map 13%
- 6%Boston4 · map 2%
- 4%Kansas City3
- 21%Somewhere else15
All 71 people who worked at Garmin 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 Garmin: 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 Garmin, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 71 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Garmin: 3 are there now, 68 have moved on.
- Most leave for Capital One: 3 people, 4% of recorded departures.
- Median tenure at Garmin: 2y, middle half 1y 3m to 3y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Garmin, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 20% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 29% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 11 of the 71 people here with one on file (15.5%). Then Arizona State (7).
- 30% of the 71 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.
- 32% of the 71 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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