After General Motors
- 17%Joined a startup7
- 24%Joined a big company10
- 60%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave General Motors most often go to a long tail of companies. 17% go small. Median stay 1y 5m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not General Motors's headcount: 53 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 172 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 530.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 917% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4483% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 5mmiddle half 9m to 3y
Put General Motors 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 General Motors yet.
How long people stay
29%<1y
27%1-2y
29%2-4y
15%4-7y
0%7y+
41 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
0012
3013
3114
3315
5316
6717
8918
1319
4220
10621
3522
4423
3224
1225
2026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 56 joined, 47 left.
Caliber
79mediantop 10%86
0Eng Scorer caliber, 53 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Developer13
- Senior Software Engineer5
- Software Engineer4
- Software Development Intern3
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 28% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 9%Exceptional or strong5 people
- 40%Solid21 people
- 45%Emerging24 people
- 6%Unproven3 people
53 of the 53 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 5 of the 53 people here with a read sit in them, 9%. 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.
28%Titles that rose12 of 43 classified people
- 28%Rose12 people
- 65%Stayed level28 people
- 7%Fell3 people
43 of the 53 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 43 of the 53 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.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley11.8%
- Carnegie Mellon9.8%
- MIT9.8%
- Arizona State5.9%
- Stanford5.9%
- University of Michigan5.9%
The 6 most listed schools among the 51 people here with a school on file.
Of the 51 people here with a school on file, 6 list UC Berkeley, 5 list Carnegie Mellon and 5 list MIT. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
23%have a public GitHub account on their profile
12 of the 53 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
70% of the people who have worked at General Motors and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
General Motors
Everyone on the map
- 70%SF Bay Area37 · map 47%
- 17%New York9 · map 33%
- 13%Somewhere else7
All 53 people who worked at General Motors 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 General Motors: 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 General Motors, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 53 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at General Motors: 9 are there now and 44 have moved on.
- The median tenure at General Motors is 1y 5m (middle half 9m to 3y).
- Of those who moved on from General Motors, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 17% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 24% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at General Motors is 79 on the 0 to 99 scale (53 scored).
- The most common title held at General Motors is Software Developer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Of the 51 people here with a school on file, 6 list UC Berkeley (11.8%), then Carnegie Mellon (5). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 70% of the 53 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.
- 23% of the 53 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 43 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 12 rose, 28 stayed level and 3 fell.
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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