After Makani
- 36%Joined a startup33
- 30%Joined a big company28
- 34%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Makani most often go to Google, DeepMind and X, The Moonshot Factory. Of them, 36% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 7m
Not Makani's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 116 people on a map of 67,181, No. 202 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1160.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1311% of the people here
- Moved on
- 10389% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 7mmiddle half 10m to 2y 10m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Google (19% of recorded departures).
48 of 91 recorded arrivals shown, 43 more from 39 other companies45 of 96 recorded departures shown, 51 more to 43 other companies
How long people stay
29%<1y
28%1-2y
32%2-4y
9%4-7y
2%7y+
103 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
5<314
<3<315
6416
8317
141118
221019
141520
202221
101222
81723
3324
8825
0<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2014 to 2026: 120 joined, 109 left.
Caliber
87mediantop 10%96
0Eng Scorer caliber, 53 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer27
- Senior Software Engineer20
- AI Resident12
- Software Engineer Intern11
- Staff Software Engineer11
- Senior Research Engineer4
- Senior Staff Software Engineer3
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 6% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 13%Exceptional7 people
- 38%Strong20 people
- 30%Solid16 people
- 13%Emerging7 people
- 6%Unproven3 people
53 of the 116 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
27 of the 53 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 51%. 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.
50%Titles that rose37 of 74 classified people
- 50%Rose37 people
- 45%Stayed level33 people
- 5%Fell4 people
74 of the 116 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
- Stanford23.3%
- UC Berkeley12.9%
- MIT8.6%
- Cornell7.8%
- Carnegie Mellon4.3%
- UCLA4.3%
- Caltech3.5%
- Penn3.5%
The 8 most listed schools among the 116 people here with a school on file.
27 of the 116 people here with a school on file list Stanford, 15 list UC Berkeley and 10 list MIT. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
48%have a public GitHub account on their profile
56 of the 116 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
91% of the people who have worked at Makani and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Makani
Everyone on the map
- 91%SF Bay Area105 · map 41%
- 3%Seattle4 · map 5%
- 3%New York3 · map 18%
- 3%Somewhere else4
All 116 people who worked at Makani 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 Makani: 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 Makani, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 116 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Makani: 13 are there now, 103 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 18 people, 19% of recorded departures. Then DeepMind and X, The Moonshot Factory.
- Most arrive from Google: 34 people. Then Amazon and X, The Moonshot Factory.
- Median tenure at Makani: 1y 7m, middle half 10m to 2y 10m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Makani, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 36% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 30% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 87 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 53 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: Stanford, listed by 27 of the 116 people here with one on file (23.3%). Then UC Berkeley (15).
- 91% of the 116 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.
- 48% of the 116 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 37 rose, 33 stayed level, 4 fell, out of the 74 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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