After Merrill Lynch
- 12%Joined a startup3
- 20%Joined a big company5
- 68%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Merrill Lynch most often go to Federal Reserve Board. 12% go small. Median stay 1y 3m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Merrill Lynch's headcount: 30 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 322 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 300.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 13% of the people here
- Moved on
- 2997% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 3mmiddle half 3m to 2y 3m
Put Merrill Lynch 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 leave for Federal Reserve Board (11% of recorded departures).
15 recorded arrivals from 15 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 15 recorded arrivals shown, 15 more from 15 other companies3 of 27 recorded departures shown, 24 more to 23 other companies
How long people stay
45%<1y
14%1-2y
36%2-4y
0%4-7y
5%7y+
22 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
2112
2313
1214
1015
0116
3117
2418
0019
0220
0021
0022
0023
0024
0025
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 11 joined, 14 left.
Caliber
77mediantop 10%85
0Eng Scorer caliber, 30 scored99
Titles held here
No titles on the record yet.
First job on the record for 43% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 10%Exceptional or strong3 people
- 30%Solid9 people
- 37%Emerging11 people
- 23%Unproven7 people
30 of the 30 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 3 of the 30 people here with a read sit in them, 10%. 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.
45%Titles that rose9 of 20 classified people
- 45%Rose9 people
- 35%Stayed level7 people
- 20%Fell4 people
20 of the 30 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 20 of the 30 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
- Rutgers10.3%
The one school among the 29 people here with a school on file.
Of the 29 people here with a school on file, 3 list Rutgers.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
30%have a public GitHub account on their profile
9 of the 30 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
40% of the people who have worked at Merrill Lynch and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Merrill Lynch
Everyone on the map
- 40%New York12 · map 33%
- 30%SF Bay Area9 · map 47%
- 23%Los Angeles7 · map 6%
All 30 people who worked at Merrill Lynch 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 Merrill Lynch: 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 Merrill Lynch, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 30 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Merrill Lynch: 1 are there now and 29 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Merrill Lynch is Federal Reserve Board (3 people, 11% of recorded departures).
- The median tenure at Merrill Lynch is 1y 3m (middle half 3m to 2y 3m).
- Of those who moved on from Merrill Lynch, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 12% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 20% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Merrill Lynch is 77 on the 0 to 99 scale (30 scored).
- Of the 29 people here with a school on file, 3 list Rutgers (10.3%). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 40% of the 30 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.
- 30% of the 30 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 20 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 9 rose, 7 stayed level and 4 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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