After Lockheed Martin
- 1%Founded something8
- 19%Joined a startup178
- 34%Joined a big company325
- 46%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Lockheed Martin most often go to Leidos, Booz Allen and Northrop Grumman. Of them, 19% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y 3m
Not Lockheed Martin's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 1,537 people on a map of 67,181, No. 10 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1,5372.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 57237% of the people here
- Moved on
- 96563% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 3mmiddle half 1y 6m to 5y 11m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Northrop Grumman. Most leave for Leidos (5% of recorded departures).
141 of 1,084 recorded arrivals shown, 943 more from 770 other companies238 of 1,002 recorded departures shown, 764 more to 551 other companies
The Lockheed Martin mafia
8 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 1% of those who moved on, half of them within 4 months of leaving. The bars cover the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
14%<1y
17%1-2y
27%2-4y
24%4-7y
19%7y+
1,425 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
353912
395313
514314
784015
726816
775017
1467418
1628519
1537820
12011321
14910922
1537823
697324
555425
301526
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 1,389 joined, 972 left.
Caliber
65mediantop 10%83
0Eng Scorer caliber, 645 scored99
there now 63 moved on 69. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer556
- Senior Software Engineer287
- Software Engineer Intern147
- Associate Software Engineer69
- Software Engineer Associate53
- Software Engineer Senior51
- Staff Software Engineer47
- Systems Engineer44
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 29% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 4%Exceptional or strong29 people
- 12%Solid79 people
- 49%Emerging317 people
- 34%Unproven220 people
645 of the 1,537 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
29 of the 645 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 4%. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
48%Titles that rose556 of 1,153 classified people
- 48%Rose556 people
- 44%Stayed level512 people
- 7%Fell85 people
1,153 of the 1,537 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 Tech12.1%
- University of Maryland6.1%
- George Mason4.7%
- Johns Hopkins4.5%
- Virginia Tech4.5%
- Penn State4.2%
- UCF3.4%
- Cornell2.6%
The 8 most listed schools among the 1,517 people here with a school on file.
183 of the 1,517 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 92 list University of Maryland and 71 list George Mason. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
17%have a public GitHub account on their profile
255 of the 1,537 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
31% of the people who have worked at Lockheed Martin and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
Lockheed Martin
Everyone on the map
- 31%Washington DC469 · map 13%
- 16%SF Bay Area247 · map 41%
- 7%Denver102 · map 0.8%
- 6%New York93 · map 18%
- 5%Dallas-Fort Worth74 · map 0.9%
- 4%Philadelphia68 · map 0.4%
- 3%Baltimore52 · map 0.7%
- 3%Orlando50
- 25%Somewhere else382
All 1,537 people who worked at Lockheed Martin 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 Lockheed Martin: 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 Lockheed Martin, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 1,537 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Lockheed Martin: 572 are there now, 965 have moved on.
- Most leave for Leidos: 54 people, 5% of recorded departures. Then Booz Allen and Northrop Grumman.
- Most arrive from Northrop Grumman: 39 people. Then Raytheon and Boeing.
- Median tenure at Lockheed Martin: 3y 3m, middle half 1y 6m to 5y 11m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Lockheed Martin, 1% went to a founder title next, 19% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 34% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 65 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 645 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 183 of the 1,517 people here with one on file (12.1%). Then University of Maryland (92).
- 31% of the 1,537 people here who list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 17% of the 1,537 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 556 rose, 512 stayed level, 85 fell, out of the 1,153 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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