After Glean
- 38%Joined a startup8
- 62%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Glean most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 38% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 1m
Not Glean's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 84 people on a map of 67,181, No. 281 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 840.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 6071% of the people here
- Moved on
- 2429% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 1mmiddle half 1y 3m to 3y 8m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google.
21 recorded departures to 20 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them
13%10Google
4%3Databricks25 of 79 recorded arrivals shown, 54 more from 52 other companies0 of 21 recorded departures shown, 21 more to 20 other companies
How long people stay
14%<1y
32%1-2y
32%2-4y
21%4-7y
1%7y+
78 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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<3020
5021
24422
10423
19724
20725
5326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2019 to 2026: 85 joined, 25 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 48 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer62
- Machine Learning Engineer6
- Software Engineer Intern5
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 2% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 33%Strong16 people
- 46%Solid22 people
- 8%Emerging4 people
- 13%Unproven6 people
48 of the 84 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
16 of the 48 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 33%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
42%Titles that rose13 of 31 classified people
- 42%Rose13 people
- 58%Stayed level18 people
31 of the 84 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 Berkeley23.8%
- Carnegie Mellon14.3%
- MIT13.1%
- Stanford10.7%
- Georgia Tech7.1%
- UCLA7.1%
- Cornell4.8%
- Johns Hopkins3.6%
The 8 most listed schools among the 84 people here with a school on file.
20 of the 84 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 12 list Carnegie Mellon and 11 list MIT. 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
21 of the 84 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
79% of the people who have worked at Glean and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Glean
Everyone on the map
- 79%SF Bay Area66 · map 41%
- 5%New York4 · map 18%
- 5%Washington DC4 · map 13%
- 12%Somewhere else10
All 84 people who worked at Glean 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 Glean: 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 Glean, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 84 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Glean: 60 are there now, 24 have moved on.
- Most arrive from Google: 10 people. Then Meta and Amazon.
- Median tenure at Glean: 2y 1m, middle half 1y 3m to 3y 8m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Glean, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 38% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and fewer than 3 joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 48 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Machine Learning Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 20 of the 84 people here with one on file (23.8%). Then Carnegie Mellon (12).
- 79% of the 84 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 84 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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