Zelcastalumni map

People who leave Intel most often go to Google, Microsoft and Amazon. 16% go small. Median stay 1y 10m

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Intel's headcount: 236 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 32 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
2360.9% of everyone on the map
There now
73% of the people here
Moved on
22997% of the people here
Median tenure
1y 10mmiddle half 8m to 3y 1m

Put Intel 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 (7% of recorded departures).

Intel135 in · 234 out
5Amazon4Qualcomm3CiscoGoogle167%Microsoft125%Amazon94%Meta94%Apple52%Cisco52%Amazon Web Services42%NVIDIA42%Palantir Technologies42%
12 of 135 recorded arrivals shown, 123 more from 116 other companies68 of 234 recorded departures shown, 166 more to 147 other companies

After Intel

  • 2%Founded something4
  • 16%Joined a startup35
  • 25%Joined a big company55
  • 57%Elsewhere

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

How long people stay

29%<1y
25%1-2y
27%2-4y
14%4-7y
5%7y+
1y 10m median tenuremiddle half 8m to 3y 1m

102 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: 203 joined, 211 left.

Caliber

83mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 236 scored99

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer Intern49
  2. Software Engineer30
  3. Research Intern9
  4. Intern8
  5. Software Development Intern6
  6. Senior Software Engineer4
  7. Graphics Hardware Engineer3
  8. Product Development Engineer3

8 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 37% of people here.

Behind the median

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

  • 4%Exceptional10 people
  • 25%Strong58 people
  • 35%Solid83 people
  • 33%Emerging77 people
  • 3%Unproven8 people

236 of the 236 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.

Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 68 of the 236 people here with a read sit in them, 29%. 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.

32%Titles that rose64 of 201 classified people

  • 32%Rose64 people
  • 65%Stayed level130 people
  • 3%Fell7 people

201 of the 236 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 201 of the 236 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 Berkeley16.7%
  2. Stanford8.2%
  3. UIUC5.2%
  4. UT Austin5.2%
  5. Carnegie Mellon4.3%
  6. UC San Diego4.3%
  7. USC4.3%
  8. Georgia Tech3.9%

The 8 most listed schools among the 233 people here with a school on file.

Of the 233 people here with a school on file, 39 list UC Berkeley, 19 list Stanford and 12 list UIUC. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

one square is one in a hundred
38%have a public GitHub account on their profile

90 of the 236 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

68% of the people who have worked at Intel and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

Intel
Everyone on the map
  • 68%SF Bay Area161 · map 47%
  • 17%New York41 · map 33%
  • 6%Los Angeles13 · map 6%
  • 3%Washington DC6 · map 7%
  • 2%Seattle5 · map 3%
  • 4%Somewhere else10

All 236 people who worked at Intel 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 Intel: 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

  • 236 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Intel: 7 are there now and 229 have moved on.
  • The most common next employer after Intel is Google (16 people, 7% of recorded departures), followed by Microsoft and Amazon.
  • The most common previous employer before Intel is Amazon (5 people), followed by Qualcomm and Cisco.
  • The median tenure at Intel is 1y 10m (middle half 8m to 3y 1m).
  • Of those who moved on from Intel, 2% went on to a founder title, 16% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 25% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Intel is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (236 scored).
  • The most common title held at Intel is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
  • Of the 233 people here with a school on file, 39 list UC Berkeley (16.7%), then Stanford (19). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 68% of the 236 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.
  • 38% of the 236 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
  • Of the 201 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 64 rose, 130 stayed level and 7 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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