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People who leave HP most often go to a long tail of companies. Median stay 2y

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not HP's headcount: 51 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 182 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
510.2% of everyone on the map
There now
36% of the people here
Moved on
4894% of the people here
Median tenure
2ymiddle half 8m to 3y

Put HP 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.

Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for HP yet.

After HP

  • 7%Joined a startup3
  • 16%Joined a big company7
  • 77%Elsewhere

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

How long people stay

29%<1y
21%1-2y
26%2-4y
18%4-7y
6%7y+
2y median tenuremiddle half 8m to 3y

34 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: 44 joined, 43 left.

Caliber

77mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 51 scored99

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer5
  2. Software Engineer Intern4
  3. Data Scientist3
  4. Senior Software Engineer3
  5. Software Development Intern3

5 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 35% of people here.

Behind the median

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

  • 16%Exceptional or strong8 people
  • 27%Solid14 people
  • 43%Emerging22 people
  • 14%Unproven7 people

51 of the 51 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.

Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 8 of the 51 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. 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.

30%Titles that rose12 of 40 classified people

  • 30%Rose12 people
  • 70%Stayed level or fell28 people

40 of the 51 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 40 of the 51 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 Berkeley17.7%
  2. UT Austin7.8%
  3. Stanford5.9%
  4. UC San Diego5.9%
  5. UIUC5.9%

The 5 most listed schools among the 51 people here with a school on file.

Of the 51 people here with a school on file, 9 list UC Berkeley, 4 list UT Austin and 3 list Stanford. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

one square is one in a hundred
31%have a public GitHub account on their profile

16 of the 51 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

59% of the people who have worked at HP and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

HP
Everyone on the map
  • 59%SF Bay Area30 · map 47%
  • 12%New York6 · map 33%
  • 10%Los Angeles5 · map 6%
  • 20%Somewhere else10

All 51 people who worked at HP 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 HP: 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

  • 51 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at HP: 3 are there now and 48 have moved on.
  • The median tenure at HP is 2y (middle half 8m to 3y).
  • Of those who moved on from HP, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 7% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 16% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at HP is 77 on the 0 to 99 scale (51 scored).
  • The most common title held at HP is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
  • Of the 51 people here with a school on file, 9 list UC Berkeley (17.6%), then UT Austin (4). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 59% of the 51 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.
  • 31% of the 51 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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