After GM
- 2%Founded something3
- 18%Joined a startup29
- 40%Joined a big company64
- 40%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave GM most often go to Amazon, Google and Ford Motor. Of them, 18% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 11m
Not GM's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 215 people on a map of 67,181, No. 108 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2150.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 5023% of the people here
- Moved on
- 16577% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 11mmiddle half 11m to 3y 4m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Cruise. Most leave for Amazon (7% of recorded departures).
14 of 173 recorded arrivals shown, 159 more from 151 other companies39 of 164 recorded departures shown, 125 more to 124 other companies
How long people stay
29%<1y
22%1-2y
33%2-4y
14%4-7y
3%7y+
185 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
6<313
8<314
6615
14516
18917
221618
81219
14920
332021
262722
202123
131924
121625
16326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2013 to 2026: 216 joined, 167 left.
Caliber
77mediantop 10%85
0Eng Scorer caliber, 69 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer40
- Software Developer35
- Senior Software Engineer17
- AI9
- Data Scientist6
- Staff Software Engineer6
- Data Engineer4
- Principal Software Engineer4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 19% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 9%Exceptional or strong6 people
- 33%Solid23 people
- 43%Emerging30 people
- 14%Unproven10 people
69 of the 215 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
6 of the 69 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 9%. 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.
28%Titles that rose46 of 166 classified people
- 28%Rose46 people
- 67%Stayed level111 people
- 5%Fell9 people
166 of the 215 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 Tech18.3%
- Carnegie Mellon7.5%
- UC Berkeley6.1%
- University of Michigan4.7%
- UT Austin4.7%
- MIT3.8%
- Stanford3.8%
- Michigan State3.3%
The 8 most listed schools among the 213 people here with a school on file.
39 of the 213 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 16 list Carnegie Mellon and 13 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
25%have a public GitHub account on their profile
54 of the 215 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
36% of the people who have worked at GM and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
GM
Everyone on the map
- 36%SF Bay Area78 · map 41%
- 11%New York23 · map 18%
- 10%Austin21 · map 0.8%
- 7%Detroit16
- 6%Washington DC13 · map 13%
- 4%Seattle9 · map 5%
- 4%Dallas-Fort Worth8 · map 0.9%
- 2%Los Angeles5 · map 5%
- 20%Somewhere else42
All 215 people who worked at GM 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 GM: 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 GM, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 215 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at GM: 50 are there now, 165 have moved on.
- Most leave for Amazon: 12 people, 7% of recorded departures. Then Google and Ford Motor.
- Most arrive from Cruise: 7 people. Then Google and Amazon.
- Median tenure at GM: 1y 11m, middle half 11m to 3y 4m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after GM, 2% went to a founder title next, 18% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 40% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 77 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 69 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Developer.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 39 of the 213 people here with one on file (18.3%). Then Carnegie Mellon (16).
- 36% of the 215 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.
- 25% of the 215 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 46 rose, 111 stayed level, 9 fell, out of the 166 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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