After McDonald's
- 16%Joined a startup5
- 31%Joined a big company10
- 53%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave McDonald's most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 16% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 11m
Not McDonald's's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 40 people on a map of 67,181, No. 602 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 400.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 38% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3793% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 11mmiddle half 3m to 2y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for McDonald's yet.
How long people stay
54%<1y
14%1-2y
24%2-4y
5%4-7y
3%7y+
37 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 33 joined, 31 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (17).
Titles held here
- Crew Member11
- Cashier3
- Crew Trainer3
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 65% of people here.
Where they studied
- UIUC10.3%
- Georgia Tech7.7%
- University of Waterloo7.7%
The 3 most listed schools among the 39 people here with a school on file.
4 of the 39 people here with a school on file list UIUC, 3 list Georgia Tech and 3 list University of Waterloo. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
33%have a public GitHub account on their profile
13 of the 40 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
28% of the people who have worked at McDonald's and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
McDonald's
Everyone on the map
- 28%New York11 · map 18%
- 28%SF Bay Area11 · map 41%
- 15%Washington DC6 · map 13%
- 8%Los Angeles3 · map 5%
- 23%Somewhere else9
All 40 people who worked at McDonald's 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 McDonald's: 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 McDonald's, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 40 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at McDonald's: 3 are there now, 37 have moved on.
- Median tenure at McDonald's: 11m, middle half 3m to 2y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after McDonald's, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 16% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 31% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Crew Member, then Cashier.
- Top school: UIUC, listed by 4 of the 39 people here with one on file (10.3%). Then Georgia Tech (3).
- 28% of the 40 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 18% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 33% of the 40 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
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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