After Goldman Sachs
- 3%Founded something21
- 15%Joined a startup93
- 36%Joined a big company229
- 46%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Goldman Sachs most often go to Amazon, Google and Meta. Of them, 3% found something next and 15% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 11m
Not Goldman Sachs's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 730 people on a map of 67,181, No. 29 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 7301.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 689% of the people here
- Moved on
- 66291% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 11mmiddle half 10m to 3y 3m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Amazon (6% of recorded departures).
75 of 576 recorded arrivals shown, 501 more from 438 other companies210 of 672 recorded departures shown, 462 more to 362 other companies
The Goldman Sachs mafia
21 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 3% of those who moved on, half of them within a month of leaving. The bars cover the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
28%<1y
24%1-2y
30%2-4y
12%4-7y
6%7y+
587 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
131812
353113
483414
544115
585716
525717
776118
755919
816720
849221
518522
445423
463124
223025
31226
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 743 joined, 729 left.
Caliber
80mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 411 scored99
there now 69 moved on 81. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer102
- Summer Analyst93
- Vice President59
- Software Engineer Intern50
- Technology Analyst43
- Summer Technology Analyst40
- Analyst36
- Associate34
8 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.
- 2%Exceptional9 people
- 14%Strong56 people
- 35%Solid142 people
- 44%Emerging182 people
- 5%Unproven22 people
411 of the 730 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
65 of the 411 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 16%. 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.
36%Titles that rose212 of 581 classified people
- 36%Rose212 people
- 48%Stayed level277 people
- 16%Fell92 people
581 of the 730 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
- Columbia7.1%
- Georgia Tech6.8%
- UC Berkeley6.3%
- Stanford5.7%
- Carnegie Mellon5.4%
- NYU5.4%
- MIT4.6%
- Cornell4.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 720 people here with a school on file.
51 of the 720 people here with a school on file list Columbia, 49 list Georgia Tech and 45 list UC Berkeley. 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
219 of the 730 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
44% of the people who have worked at Goldman Sachs and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
Goldman Sachs
Everyone on the map
- 44%New York318 · map 18%
- 33%SF Bay Area241 · map 41%
- 5%Seattle39 · map 5%
- 3%Los Angeles24 · map 5%
- 3%Washington DC21 · map 13%
- 2%Dallas-Fort Worth14 · map 0.9%
- 1%Boston8 · map 2%
- 0.7%Salt Lake City5
- 8%Somewhere else60
All 730 people who worked at Goldman Sachs 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 Goldman Sachs: 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 Goldman Sachs, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 730 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Goldman Sachs: 68 are there now, 662 have moved on.
- Most leave for Amazon: 42 people, 6% of recorded departures. Then Google and Meta.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 13 people. Then Microsoft and Google.
- Median tenure at Goldman Sachs: 1y 11m, middle half 10m to 3y 3m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Goldman Sachs, 3% went to a founder title next, 15% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 36% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 80 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 411 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Summer Analyst.
- Top school: Columbia, listed by 51 of the 720 people here with one on file (7.1%). Then Georgia Tech (49).
- 44% of the 730 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 18% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 30% of the 730 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 212 rose, 277 stayed level, 92 fell, out of the 581 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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