After Magic Leap
- 16%Joined a startup5
- 41%Joined a big company13
- 44%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Magic Leap most often go to Google and Apple. Of them, 16% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 11m
Not Magic Leap's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 36 people on a map of 67,181, No. 676 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 360.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 38% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3392% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 11mmiddle half 1y 1m to 3y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Google (18% of recorded departures).
0 of 27 recorded arrivals shown, 27 more from 26 other companies10 of 33 recorded departures shown, 23 more to 22 other companies
How long people stay
16%<1y
35%1-2y
35%2-4y
13%4-7y
0%7y+
31 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
3014
3015
6416
6<317
7618
3819
4920
<3<321
<3<322
3023
0<324
0<325
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2014 to 2026: 37 joined, 34 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (11).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer7
- Senior Software Engineer6
- Lead Software Engineer4
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 11% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
48%Titles that rose15 of 31 classified people
- 48%Rose15 people
- 42%Stayed level13 people
- 10%Fell3 people
31 of the 36 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 Berkeley16.7%
- University of Florida8.3%
The 2 most listed schools among the 36 people here with a school on file.
6 of the 36 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley and 3 list University of Florida. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
42%have a public GitHub account on their profile
15 of the 36 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
67% of the people who have worked at Magic Leap and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Magic Leap
Everyone on the map
- 67%SF Bay Area24 · map 41%
- 8%Los Angeles3 · map 5%
- 8%Seattle3 · map 5%
- 17%Somewhere else6
All 36 people who worked at Magic Leap 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 Magic Leap: 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 Magic Leap, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 36 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Magic Leap: 3 are there now, 33 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 6 people, 18% of recorded departures. Then Apple.
- Median tenure at Magic Leap: 1y 11m, middle half 1y 1m to 3y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Magic Leap, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 16% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 41% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 6 of the 36 people here with one on file (16.7%). Then University of Florida (3).
- 67% of the 36 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.
- 42% of the 36 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 15 rose, 13 stayed level, 3 fell, out of the 31 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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