Zelcastalumni map

People who leave Google DeepMind most often go to OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. 13% go small. Median stay 1y 4m

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Google DeepMind's headcount: 220 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 36 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026. Google DeepMind sits inside Google. The map keeps the two apart because each hires under its own name, and marks every move between them rather than counting it as a change of employer.

People on the map
2200.8% of everyone on the map
There now
14867% of the people here
Moved on
7233% of the people here
Median tenure
1y 4mmiddle half 8m to 2y 4m

Put Google DeepMind 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 Meta. Most leave for OpenAI (25% of recorded departures). Google DeepMind and Google are one company kept apart here, so the ribbon between them is a transfer inside it, not a move to another employer.

GoogleDeepMind187 in · 69 out
100Google14Meta11Windsurf3Amazon3Apple3OpenAIOpenAI1725%Anthropic1116%Meta57%Google46%Microsoft34%
134 of 187 recorded arrivals shown, 53 more from 47 other companies40 of 69 recorded departures shown, 29 more to 23 other companies

After Google DeepMind

  • 13%Joined a startup9
  • 17%Joined a big company12
  • 70%Elsewhere

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

How long people stay

37%<1y
31%1-2y
22%2-4y
9%4-7y
2%7y+
1y 4m median tenuremiddle half 8m to 2y 4m

200 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: 224 joined, 77 left.

Caliber

92mediantop 10%97
0Eng Scorer caliber, 220 scored99

there now 91 moved on 94. The people who left score higher than the people still there.

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer69
  2. Senior Software Engineer44
  3. Staff Software Engineer29
  4. Research Engineer12
  5. Research Scientist12
  6. Senior Research Engineer10
  7. Research Intern9
  8. Senior Staff Software Engineer8

8 most common titles, by people who held them.

Behind the median

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

  • 19%Exceptional41 people
  • 62%Strong136 people
  • 15%Solid34 people
  • 4%Emerging or unproven9 people

220 of the 220 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.

Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 177 of the 220 people here with a read sit in them, 80%. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.

Whether a title rose here

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

44%Titles that rose52 of 117 classified people

  • 44%Rose52 people
  • 56%Stayed level or fell65 people

117 of the 220 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 117 of the 220 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. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.

Where they studied

  1. UC Berkeley21.4%
  2. Stanford15.5%
  3. MIT11.4%
  4. Carnegie Mellon6.4%
  5. Georgia Tech5.0%
  6. Cornell4.1%
  7. UC San Diego4.1%
  8. UIUC4.1%

The 8 most listed schools among the 220 people here with a school on file.

Of the 220 people here with a school on file, 47 list UC Berkeley, 34 list Stanford and 25 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

99 of the 220 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

81% of the people who have worked at Google DeepMind and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

Google DeepMind
Everyone on the map
  • 81%SF Bay Area179 · map 47%
  • 11%New York25 · map 33%
  • 7%Somewhere else16

All 220 people who worked at Google DeepMind 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 Google DeepMind: 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

  • 220 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Google DeepMind: 148 are there now and 72 have moved on.
  • The most common next employer after Google DeepMind is OpenAI (17 people, 25% of recorded departures), followed by Anthropic and Meta.
  • The most common previous employer before Google DeepMind is Meta (14 people), followed by Windsurf and Amazon.
  • Google DeepMind and Google are the same company on this map, kept apart because each hires under its own name. The 100 people counted as arriving from Google and the 4 counted as leaving for it 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 DeepMind is 1y 4m (middle half 8m to 2y 4m).
  • Of those who moved on from Google DeepMind, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 13% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 17% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Google DeepMind is 92 on the 0 to 99 scale (220 scored).
  • The most common title held at Google DeepMind is Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
  • Of the 220 people here with a school on file, 47 list UC Berkeley (21.4%), then Stanford (34). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 81% of the 220 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 220 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.

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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