After HRL Laboratories
- 34%Joined a startup10
- 21%Joined a big company6
- 45%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave HRL Laboratories most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 34% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 7m
Not HRL Laboratories's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 38 people on a map of 67,181, No. 640 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 380.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 38% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3592% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 7mmiddle half 1y to 4y 8m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for HRL Laboratories yet.
How long people stay
18%<1y
18%1-2y
27%2-4y
23%4-7y
14%7y+
22 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: 32 joined, 33 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (18).
Titles held here
- Research Intern3
- Software Engineer3
2 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 32% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
41%Titles that rose11 of 27 classified people
- 41%Rose11 people
- 59%Stayed level or fell16 people
27 of the 38 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. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- UCLA26.3%
- UC Santa Barbara15.8%
- Georgia Tech13.2%
- UC Berkeley10.5%
- Columbia7.9%
The 5 most listed schools among the 38 people here with a school on file.
10 of the 38 people here with a school on file list UCLA, 6 list UC Santa Barbara and 5 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
37%have a public GitHub account on their profile
14 of the 38 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
34% of the people who have worked at HRL Laboratories and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
HRL Laboratories
Everyone on the map
- 34%SF Bay Area13 · map 41%
- 32%Los Angeles12 · map 5%
- 11%New York4 · map 18%
- 8%Santa Barbara3
- 16%Somewhere else6
All 38 people who worked at HRL Laboratories 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 HRL Laboratories: 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 HRL Laboratories, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 38 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at HRL Laboratories: 3 are there now, 35 have moved on.
- Median tenure at HRL Laboratories: 2y 7m, middle half 1y to 4y 8m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after HRL Laboratories, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 34% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 21% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Research Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: UCLA, listed by 10 of the 38 people here with one on file (26.3%). Then UC Santa Barbara (6).
- 34% of the 38 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 41% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 37% of the 38 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
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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