After McKinsey & Company
- 10%Founded something7
- 16%Joined a startup12
- 15%Joined a big company11
- 59%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave McKinsey & Company most often go to Scale AI. 10% found something next. 16% go small. Median stay 1y 11m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not McKinsey & Company's headcount: 86 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 114 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 860.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1012% of the people here
- Moved on
- 7688% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 11mmiddle half 11m to 3y
Put McKinsey & Company side by side with another company, every number against every number.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Scale AI (5% of recorded departures).
7 of 64 recorded arrivals shown, 57 more from 53 other companies4 of 76 recorded departures shown, 72 more to 68 other companies
How long people stay
30%<1y
24%1-2y
29%2-4y
16%4-7y
0%7y+
79 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
2012
3313
6214
5615
5416
8617
6318
3819
6520
8721
12622
4823
21124
3225
3026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 76 joined, 71 left.
Caliber
75mediantop 10%86
0Eng Scorer caliber, 86 scored99
Titles held here
- Business Analyst8
- Associate7
- Consultant4
- Engagement Manager4
- Summer Associate4
- Summer Business Analyst4
- Associate Partner3
- Data Engineer3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 21% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 8%Exceptional or strong7 people
- 28%Solid24 people
- 49%Emerging42 people
- 15%Unproven13 people
86 of the 86 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 7 of the 86 people here with a read sit in them, 8%. A tier is the band an Eng Scorer 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 together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
49%Titles that rose32 of 65 classified people
- 49%Rose32 people
- 42%Stayed level27 people
- 9%Fell6 people
65 of the 86 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 who recorded one title here and then left, it is 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. A title that matches no rung is left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely, being a different ladder. That leaves 65 of the 86 people here classified, and it leans towards people who have left: someone still here on a single recorded title has nothing to be measured against.
Where they studied
- Harvard9.4%
- Stanford9.4%
- Columbia8.2%
- UC Berkeley8.2%
- MIT5.9%
- Penn4.7%
- Princeton4.7%
- Dartmouth3.5%
The 8 most listed schools among the 85 people here with a school on file.
Of the 85 people here with a school on file, 8 list Harvard, 8 list Stanford and 7 list Columbia. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
24%have a public GitHub account on their profile
21 of the 86 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check did not find reads the same as no account, so this is a floor rather than a census.
Across the 325 companies on the map that can show this figure, the median is 38%.
Where they are now
47% of the people who have worked at McKinsey & Company and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
McKinsey & Company
Everyone on the map
- 47%New York40 · map 33%
- 33%Los Angeles28 · map 6%
- 14%SF Bay Area12 · map 47%
- 3%Washington DC3 · map 7%
- 3%Somewhere else3
All 86 people who worked at McKinsey & Company 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 they worked at McKinsey & Company: a metro here does not mean the company has an office in it. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map, for comparison.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside McKinsey & Company, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 86 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at McKinsey & Company: 10 are there now and 76 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after McKinsey & Company is Scale AI (4 people, 5% of recorded departures).
- The most common previous employer before McKinsey & Company is Google (4 people), followed by Microsoft.
- The median tenure at McKinsey & Company is 1y 11m (middle half 11m to 3y).
- Of those who moved on from McKinsey & Company, 10% went on to a founder title, 16% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 15% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at McKinsey & Company is 75 on the 0 to 99 scale (86 scored).
- The most common title held at McKinsey & Company is Business Analyst, then Associate.
- Of the 85 people here with a school on file, 8 list Harvard (9.4%), then Stanford (8). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 47% of the 86 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 24% of the 86 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 65 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 32 rose, 27 stayed level and 6 fell.
About this data: built from 144,786 jobs across 26,572 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated August 20, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving; companies with fewer than 20 people on the map are not shown, and destinations with fewer than 3 people are folded into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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