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People who leave Goldman Sachs most often go to Google, Amazon and Meta. 3% found something next. 10% go small. Median stay 2y 2m

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Goldman Sachs's headcount: 361 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 22 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
3611.4% of everyone on the map
There now
319% of the people here
Moved on
33091% of the people here
Median tenure
2y 2mmiddle half 10m to 4y 1m

Put Goldman Sachs 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. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Google (5% of recorded departures).

GoldmanSachs293 in · 339 out
6Amazon6Google6Microsoft4Bank of America4IBM4JPMorganChase3Accenture3Bloomberg3Capital OneGoogle175%Amazon144%Meta144%Palantir Technologies113%Bloomberg93%Microsoft82%Stripe72%JPMorganChase62%Amazon Web Services51%
39 of 293 recorded arrivals shown, 254 more from 232 other companies91 of 339 recorded departures shown, 248 more to 206 other companies

After Goldman Sachs

  • 3%Founded something11
  • 10%Joined a startup33
  • 22%Joined a big company70
  • 64%Elsewhere

Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.

The Goldman Sachs mafia

11 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 are the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders count in the total.

How long people stay

26%<1y
21%1-2y
26%2-4y
17%4-7y
11%7y+
2y 2m median tenuremiddle half 10m to 4y 1m

304 stays with both a start and an end on the record.

Who comes and goes, by year

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joined left2026 is a partial year

2012 to 2026: 350 joined, 359 left.

Caliber

81mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 361 scored99

there now 69 moved on 82. The people who left score higher than the people still there.

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer49
  2. Vice President47
  3. Summer Analyst40
  4. Technology Analyst28
  5. Summer Technology Analyst26
  6. Software Engineer Intern24
  7. Associate20
  8. Analyst17

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%Strong50 people
  • 38%Solid136 people
  • 43%Emerging155 people
  • 3%Unproven11 people

361 of the 361 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.

Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 59 of the 361 people here with a read sit in them, 16%. 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.

Whether a title rose here

The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.

37%Titles that rose113 of 302 classified people

  • 37%Rose113 people
  • 46%Stayed level139 people
  • 17%Fell50 people

302 of the 361 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 302 of the 361 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

  1. Columbia8.7%
  2. UC Berkeley8.4%
  3. NYU7.9%
  4. Stanford6.2%
  5. Penn5.1%
  6. Cornell4.2%
  7. MIT3.4%
  8. UIUC3.4%

The 8 most listed schools among the 356 people here with a school on file.

Of the 356 people here with a school on file, 31 list Columbia, 30 list UC Berkeley and 28 list NYU. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

one square is one in a hundred
36%have a public GitHub account on their profile

129 of the 361 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

63% of the people who have worked at Goldman Sachs and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.

Goldman Sachs
Everyone on the map
  • 63%New York228 · map 33%
  • 25%SF Bay Area92 · map 47%
  • 4%Los Angeles16 · map 6%
  • 2%Washington DC7 · map 7%
  • 2%Seattle6 · map 3%
  • 3%Somewhere else12

All 361 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 they worked at Goldman Sachs: 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.

Key facts

  • 361 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Goldman Sachs: 31 are there now and 330 have moved on.
  • The most common next employer after Goldman Sachs is Google (17 people, 5% of recorded departures), followed by Amazon and Meta.
  • The most common previous employer before Goldman Sachs is Amazon (6 people), followed by Google and Microsoft.
  • The median tenure at Goldman Sachs is 2y 2m (middle half 10m to 4y 1m).
  • Of those who moved on from Goldman Sachs, 3% went on to a founder title, 10% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 22% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Goldman Sachs is 81 on the 0 to 99 scale (361 scored).
  • The most common title held at Goldman Sachs is Software Engineer, then Vice President.
  • Of the 356 people here with a school on file, 31 list Columbia (8.7%), then UC Berkeley (30). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 63% of the 361 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
  • 36% of the 361 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
  • Of the 302 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 113 rose, 139 stayed level and 50 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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