After Merck
- 4%Founded something3
- 8%Joined a startup6
- 39%Joined a big company30
- 49%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Merck most often go to Amazon, Amgen and Capital One. Of them, 4% found something next. The median tenure is 1y 10m
Not Merck's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 102 people on a map of 67,181, No. 229 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1020.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1212% of the people here
- Moved on
- 9088% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 10mmiddle half 9m to 3y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Amazon (5% of recorded departures).
78 recorded arrivals from 74 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
Amazon45%0 of 78 recorded arrivals shown, 78 more from 74 other companies13 of 77 recorded departures shown, 64 more to 60 other companies
How long people stay
30%<1y
23%1-2y
30%2-4y
9%4-7y
8%7y+
74 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: 84 joined, 80 left.
Caliber
72mediantop 10%84
0Eng Scorer caliber, 45 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern9
- Software Engineer6
- Associate Director4
- Data Engineer3
- Data Scientist3
- Machine Learning Engineer3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 24% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 27%Exceptional, strong or solid12 people
- 64%Emerging29 people
- 9%Unproven4 people
45 of the 102 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Fewer than 3 of the 45 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, too few to print as a count. 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.
38%Titles that rose25 of 66 classified people
- 38%Rose25 people
- 48%Stayed level32 people
- 14%Fell9 people
66 of the 102 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
- Purdue7.8%
- UC Berkeley6.9%
- Osmania University5.9%
- Penn5.9%
- Rutgers5.9%
- Georgia Tech4.9%
- NJIT4.9%
- Carnegie Mellon3.9%
The 8 most listed schools among the 102 people here with a school on file.
8 of the 102 people here with a school on file list Purdue, 7 list UC Berkeley and 6 list Osmania University. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
18%have a public GitHub account on their profile
18 of the 102 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
32% of the people who have worked at Merck and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
Merck
Everyone on the map
- 32%New York33 · map 18%
- 24%SF Bay Area24 · map 41%
- 12%Los Angeles12 · map 5%
- 12%Washington DC12 · map 13%
- 3%Boston3 · map 2%
- 18%Somewhere else18
All 102 people who worked at Merck 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 Merck: 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 Merck, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 102 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Merck: 12 are there now, 90 have moved on.
- Most leave for Amazon: 4 people, 5% of recorded departures. Then Amgen and Capital One.
- Median tenure at Merck: 1y 10m, middle half 9m to 3y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Merck, 4% went to a founder title next, 8% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 39% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 72 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 45 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: Purdue, listed by 8 of the 102 people here with one on file (7.8%). Then UC Berkeley (7).
- 32% of the 102 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.
- 18% of the 102 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 25 rose, 32 stayed level, 9 fell, out of the 66 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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