After John Deere
- 17%Joined a startup12
- 33%Joined a big company23
- 49%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave John Deere most often go to Palantir, IBM and Microsoft. Of them, 17% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 10m
Not John Deere's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 91 people on a map of 67,181, No. 259 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 910.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 2123% of the people here
- Moved on
- 7077% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 10mmiddle half 1y to 3y 6m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from UKG. Most leave for Palantir (5% of recorded departures).
3 of 72 recorded arrivals shown, 69 more from 68 other companies10 of 74 recorded departures shown, 64 more to 59 other companies
How long people stay
24%<1y
31%1-2y
25%2-4y
14%4-7y
7%7y+
59 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
5<312
<3313
<3<314
3315
6316
4317
8418
6719
8620
111121
9522
16923
81224
6525
<3<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 95 joined, 76 left.
Caliber
77mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 31 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer19
- Software Engineer Intern11
- Senior Software Engineer7
- Data Science Intern4
- Product Engineering Intern4
- AI3
- Machine Learning Engineer3
- Staff Software Engineer3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 23% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 13%Strong4 people
- 26%Solid8 people
- 52%Emerging16 people
- 10%Unproven3 people
31 of the 91 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
4 of the 31 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 13%. 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.
31%Titles that rose22 of 70 classified people
- 31%Rose22 people
- 64%Stayed level45 people
- 4%Fell3 people
70 of the 91 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
- Georgia Tech24.4%
- UIUC16.7%
- Purdue11.1%
- Iowa State University6.7%
- MIT3.3%
- North Dakota State University3.3%
- Stanford3.3%
- UC Berkeley3.3%
The 8 most listed schools among the 90 people here with a school on file.
22 of the 90 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 15 list UIUC and 10 list Purdue. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
26%have a public GitHub account on their profile
24 of the 91 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
33% of the people who have worked at John Deere and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
John Deere
Everyone on the map
- 33%SF Bay Area30 · map 41%
- 14%New York13 · map 18%
- 9%Washington DC8 · map 13%
- 5%Chicago5 · map 0.6%
- 4%Des Moines4
- 3%Dallas-Fort Worth3 · map 0.9%
- 3%Raleigh-Durham3 · map 0.3%
- 3%Seattle3 · map 5%
- 24%Somewhere else22
All 91 people who worked at John Deere 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 John Deere: 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 John Deere, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 91 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at John Deere: 21 are there now, 70 have moved on.
- Most leave for Palantir: 4 people, 5% of recorded departures. Then IBM and Microsoft.
- Most arrive from UKG: 3 people.
- Median tenure at John Deere: 1y 10m, middle half 1y to 3y 6m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after John Deere, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 17% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 33% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 77 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 31 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 22 of the 90 people here with one on file (24.4%). Then UIUC (15).
- 33% of the 91 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.
- 26% of the 91 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 22 rose, 45 stayed level, 3 fell, out of the 70 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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