After Genentech
- 7%Founded something7
- 20%Joined a startup21
- 20%Joined a big company21
- 52%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Genentech most often go to Meta, Amgen and Google. Of them, 7% found something next and 20% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 8m
Not Genentech's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 125 people on a map of 67,181, No. 189 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1250.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 119% of the people here
- Moved on
- 11491% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 8mmiddle half 1y to 3y 3m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Merck. Most leave for Meta (5% of recorded departures).
How long people stay
22%<1y
29%1-2y
37%2-4y
7%4-7y
6%7y+
90 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
6<312
3413
5314
9615
7616
10817
91418
141419
11320
101221
171422
8<323
6724
61225
0526
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 121 joined, 112 left.
Caliber
78mediantop 10%85
0Eng Scorer caliber, 53 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer16
- Intern4
- Senior Software Engineer4
- Software Engineer Intern4
- Research Associate3
- Research Intern3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 23% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 8%Exceptional or strong4 people
- 36%Solid19 people
- 47%Emerging25 people
- 9%Unproven5 people
53 of the 125 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
4 of the 53 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 8%. A tier is the band a 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 with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
53%Titles that rose47 of 88 classified people
- 53%Rose47 people
- 42%Stayed level37 people
- 5%Fell4 people
88 of the 125 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
- UC Berkeley23.2%
- Stanford10.4%
- UC Davis9.6%
- UCLA8.8%
- USC6.4%
- San Francisco State4.8%
- Harvard4.0%
- Northeastern4.0%
The 8 most listed schools among the 125 people here with a school on file.
29 of the 125 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 13 list Stanford and 12 list UC Davis. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
30%have a public GitHub account on their profile
37 of the 125 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
66% of the people who have worked at Genentech and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Genentech
Everyone on the map
- 66%SF Bay Area82 · map 41%
- 18%Los Angeles23 · map 5%
- 7%New York9 · map 18%
- 9%Somewhere else11
All 125 people who worked at Genentech 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 Genentech: 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 Genentech, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 125 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Genentech: 11 are there now, 114 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 5 people, 5% of recorded departures. Then Amgen and Google.
- Most arrive from Merck: 3 people.
- Median tenure at Genentech: 1y 8m, middle half 1y to 3y 3m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Genentech, 7% went to a founder title next, 20% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 20% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 78 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 53 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Intern.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 29 of the 125 people here with one on file (23.2%). Then Stanford (13).
- 66% of the 125 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.
- 30% of the 125 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 47 rose, 37 stayed level, 4 fell, out of the 88 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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