Zelcastalumni map

People who leave Google most often go to Meta, Google DeepMind and Palantir Technologies. 5% found something next. 18% go small. Median stay 3y 7m

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Google's headcount: 3,299 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 1 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
3,29912.4% of everyone on the map
There now
1,30540% of the people here
Moved on
1,99460% of the people here
Median tenure
3y 7mmiddle half 1y 7m to 5y

Put Google 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 Meta (8% of recorded departures). Google and Google DeepMind are one company kept apart here, so the ribbon between them is a transfer inside it, not a move to another employer.

Google3,134 in · 2,290 out
157Amazon121Microsoft117Meta69Palantir Technologies53Amazon Web Services39Apple39Bloomberg36IBM26Capital OneMeta1948%Google DeepMind1004%Palantir Technologies824%Microsoft552%OpenAI512%Amazon412%YouTube392%Stripe352%Apple331%
657 of 3,134 recorded arrivals shown, 2,477 more from 1,695 other companies630 of 2,290 recorded departures shown, 1,660 more to 960 other companies

After Google

  • 5%Founded something97
  • 18%Joined a startup376
  • 19%Joined a big company384
  • 58%Elsewhere

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

The Google mafia

97 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 5% 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

15%<1y
14%1-2y
26%2-4y
33%4-7y
12%7y+
3y 7m median tenuremiddle half 1y 7m to 5y

2,936 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: 3,883 joined, 2,704 left.

Caliber

84mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 3,299 scored99

there now 84 moved on 86. The people who left score higher than the people still there.

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer1,642
  2. Software Engineer Intern766
  3. Senior Software Engineer513
  4. Staff Software Engineer229
  5. Engineering Practicum Intern112
  6. Software Engineer III106
  7. Engineering Manager92
  8. Software Engineer II81

8 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 15% of people here.

Behind the median

Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.

  • 7%Exceptional225 people
  • 33%Strong1,073 people
  • 46%Solid1,531 people
  • 13%Emerging420 people
  • 1%Unproven48 people

3,297 of the 3,299 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.

Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 1,298 of the 3,297 people here with a read sit in them, 39%. 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.

44%Titles that rose1,004 of 2,281 classified people

  • 44%Rose1,004 people
  • 53%Stayed level1,199 people
  • 3%Fell78 people

2,281 of the 3,299 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 2,281 of the 3,299 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. UC Berkeley13.9%
  2. Stanford10.2%
  3. MIT6.3%
  4. Carnegie Mellon5.5%
  5. UIUC3.5%
  6. Georgia Tech3.4%
  7. Cornell3.3%
  8. Columbia3.0%

The 8 most listed schools among the 3,266 people here with a school on file.

Of the 3,266 people here with a school on file, 455 list UC Berkeley, 332 list Stanford and 204 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
45%have a public GitHub account on their profile

1,472 of the 3,297 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

60% of the people who have worked at Google and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

Google
Everyone on the map
  • 60%SF Bay Area1,980 · map 47%
  • 29%New York966 · map 33%
  • 3%Los Angeles102 · map 6%
  • 2%Seattle75 · map 3%
  • 2%Washington DC50 · map 7%
  • 0.4%Boston12 · map 0.4%
  • 0.2%Austin8 · map 0.1%
  • 0.2%Chicago7 · map 0.1%
  • 3%Somewhere else93

3,293 of the 3,299 people who worked at Google list a location, and every share here is over those 3,293.

Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Google: 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

  • 3,299 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Google: 1,305 are there now and 1,994 have moved on.
  • The most common next employer after Google is Meta (194 people, 8% of recorded departures), followed by Palantir Technologies and Microsoft.
  • The most common previous employer before Google is Amazon (157 people), followed by Microsoft and Meta.
  • Google and Google DeepMind are the same company on this map, kept apart because each hires under its own name. The 100 people counted as leaving for Google DeepMind are almost certainly transfers inside one company rather than changes of employer, and they still sit inside every total on this page.
  • The median tenure at Google is 3y 7m (middle half 1y 7m to 5y).
  • Of those who moved on from Google, 5% went on to a founder title, 18% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 19% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Google is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (3,299 scored).
  • The most common title held at Google is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
  • Of the 3,266 people here with a school on file, 455 list UC Berkeley (13.9%), then Stanford (332). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 60% of the 3,293 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.
  • 45% of the 3,297 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
  • Of the 2,281 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 1,004 rose, 1,199 stayed level and 78 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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