After Intel
- 2%Founded something12
- 17%Joined a startup121
- 41%Joined a big company292
- 41%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Intel most often go to Google, Microsoft and Amazon. Of them, 17% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 7m
Not Intel's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 852 people on a map of 67,181, No. 25 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 8521.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 769% of the people here
- Moved on
- 77691% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 7mmiddle half 1y 1m to 4y 6m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Microsoft. Most leave for Google (6% of recorded departures).
70 of 515 recorded arrivals shown, 445 more from 379 other companies245 of 769 recorded departures shown, 524 more to 394 other companies
The Intel mafia
12 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 2% of those who moved on, half of them within 3 months of leaving. The bars cover the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
20%<1y
19%1-2y
30%2-4y
18%4-7y
13%7y+
519 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
534312
513913
543814
706315
817316
737817
716718
597519
565120
687521
715022
364723
383824
114325
3726
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 795 joined, 787 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 312 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer135
- Software Engineer Intern124
- Research Intern36
- Senior Software Engineer32
- Intern31
- Graduate Technical Intern19
- Machine Learning Engineer19
- Research Scientist19
8 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.
- 4%Exceptional11 people
- 21%Strong64 people
- 33%Solid103 people
- 38%Emerging117 people
- 5%Unproven17 people
312 of the 852 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
75 of the 312 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 24%. A tier is the band a 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.
37%Titles that rose257 of 694 classified people
- 37%Rose257 people
- 57%Stayed level396 people
- 6%Fell41 people
694 of the 852 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.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley10.6%
- Georgia Tech8.3%
- Stanford6.3%
- Carnegie Mellon6.2%
- USC5.2%
- Arizona State4.4%
- MIT3.6%
- UT Austin3.6%
The 8 most listed schools among the 843 people here with a school on file.
89 of the 843 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 70 list Georgia Tech and 53 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
35%have a public GitHub account on their profile
296 of the 852 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
60% of the people who have worked at Intel and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Intel
Everyone on the map
- 60%SF Bay Area510 · map 41%
- 8%New York70 · map 18%
- 7%Seattle59 · map 5%
- 4%Washington DC34 · map 13%
- 4%Portland32 · map 0.2%
- 3%Los Angeles25 · map 5%
- 2%Phoenix14 · map 0.2%
- 0.9%Atlanta8 · map 1%
- 12%Somewhere else100
All 852 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 working at Intel: 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 Intel, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 852 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Intel: 76 are there now, 776 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 47 people, 6% of recorded departures. Then Microsoft and Amazon.
- Most arrive from Microsoft: 16 people. Then Amazon and IBM.
- Median tenure at Intel: 2y 7m, middle half 1y 1m to 4y 6m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Intel, 2% went to a founder title next, 17% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 41% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 82 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 312 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 89 of the 843 people here with one on file (10.6%). Then Georgia Tech (70).
- 60% of the 852 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.
- 35% of the 852 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 257 rose, 396 stayed level, 41 fell, out of the 694 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder before and after.
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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