After Merrill Lynch
- 10%Founded something4
- 10%Joined a startup4
- 21%Joined a big company9
- 60%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Merrill Lynch most often go to Credit Suisse and Federal Reserve Board. Of them, 10% found something next. The median tenure is 2y 1m
Not Merrill Lynch's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 49 people on a map of 67,181, No. 484 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 490.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 12% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4898% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 1mmiddle half 9m to 3y 6m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Credit Suisse (7% of recorded departures).
23 recorded arrivals from 21 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
Credit Suisse37%0 of 23 recorded arrivals shown, 23 more from 21 other companies6 of 45 recorded departures shown, 39 more to 36 other companies
How long people stay
33%<1y
13%1-2y
33%2-4y
13%4-7y
8%7y+
39 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: 15 joined, 22 left.
Caliber
75mediantop 10%85
0Eng Scorer caliber, 34 scored99
Titles held here
- Vice President3
1 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 45% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 9%Exceptional or strong3 people
- 26%Solid9 people
- 44%Emerging15 people
- 21%Unproven7 people
34 of the 49 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
3 of the 34 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 9%. 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.
44%Titles that rose15 of 34 classified people
- 44%Rose15 people
- 35%Stayed level12 people
- 21%Fell7 people
34 of the 49 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
- Cornell8.3%
- Stanford8.3%
- MIT6.3%
- Rutgers6.3%
- UC Berkeley6.3%
The 5 most listed schools among the 48 people here with a school on file.
4 of the 48 people here with a school on file list Cornell, 4 list Stanford and 3 list MIT. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
35%have a public GitHub account on their profile
17 of the 49 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
33% of the people who have worked at Merrill Lynch and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
Merrill Lynch
Everyone on the map
- 33%New York16 · map 18%
- 29%SF Bay Area14 · map 41%
- 18%Los Angeles9 · map 5%
- 8%Washington DC4 · map 13%
- 12%Somewhere else6
All 49 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 working at Merrill Lynch: 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 Merrill Lynch, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 49 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Merrill Lynch: 1 are there now, 48 have moved on.
- Most leave for Credit Suisse: 3 people, 7% of recorded departures. Then Federal Reserve Board.
- Median tenure at Merrill Lynch: 2y 1m, middle half 9m to 3y 6m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Merrill Lynch, 10% went to a founder title next, 10% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 21% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 75 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 34 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Vice President.
- Top school: Cornell, listed by 4 of the 48 people here with one on file (8.3%). Then Stanford (4).
- 33% of the 49 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.
- 35% of the 49 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 15 rose, 12 stayed level, 7 fell, out of the 34 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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