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People who leave MIT Lincoln Laboratory most often go to Microsoft, Google and Amazon. 29% go small. Median stay 1y 1m

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not MIT Lincoln Laboratory's headcount: 86 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 115 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
860.3% of everyone on the map
There now
22% of the people here
Moved on
8498% of the people here
Median tenure
1y 1mmiddle half 4m to 2y 4m

Put MIT Lincoln Laboratory 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 Microsoft (6% of recorded departures).

MIT LincolnLaboratory59 in · 79 out

59 recorded arrivals from 53 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them

Microsoft56%Google45%Amazon34%Meta34%
0 of 59 recorded arrivals shown, 59 more from 53 other companies15 of 79 recorded departures shown, 64 more to 61 other companies

After MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • 29%Joined a startup22
  • 26%Joined a big company20
  • 45%Elsewhere

Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.

How long people stay

45%<1y
25%1-2y
20%2-4y
5%4-7y
5%7y+
1y 1m median tenuremiddle half 4m to 2y 4m

44 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: 78 joined, 78 left.

Caliber

83mediantop 10%90
0Eng Scorer caliber, 86 scored99

Titles held here

  1. Summer Research Intern9
  2. Research Intern7
  3. Associate Staff6
  4. Software Engineer Intern5
  5. Summer Intern5
  6. Intern4
  7. Software Engineer4
  8. Summer Research Program Intern4

8 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 29% of people here.

Behind the median

Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.

  • 19%Strong16 people
  • 50%Solid43 people
  • 28%Emerging24 people
  • 3%Unproven3 people

86 of the 86 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.

Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 16 of the 86 people here with a read sit in them, 19%. 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.

Whether a title rose here

The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.

28%Titles that rose19 of 68 classified people

  • 28%Rose19 people
  • 59%Stayed level40 people
  • 13%Fell9 people

68 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 68 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

  1. MIT19.8%
  2. Northeastern11.6%
  3. UC Berkeley10.5%
  4. Harvard7.0%
  5. Georgia Tech4.7%
  6. Stanford4.7%
  7. Tufts4.7%
  8. Harvey Mudd3.5%

The 8 most listed schools among the 86 people here with a school on file.

Of the 86 people here with a school on file, 17 list MIT, 10 list Northeastern and 9 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

one square is one in a hundred
36%have a public GitHub account on their profile

31 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

51% of the people who have worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Everyone on the map
  • 51%SF Bay Area44 · map 47%
  • 21%New York18 · map 33%
  • 9%Boston8 · map 0.4%
  • 7%Washington DC6 · map 7%
  • 5%Los Angeles4 · map 6%
  • 7%Somewhere else6

All 86 people who worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory 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 MIT Lincoln Laboratory: 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.

Key facts

  • 86 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory: 2 are there now and 84 have moved on.
  • The most common next employer after MIT Lincoln Laboratory is Microsoft (5 people, 6% of recorded departures), followed by Google and Amazon.
  • The median tenure at MIT Lincoln Laboratory is 1y 1m (middle half 4m to 2y 4m).
  • Of those who moved on from MIT Lincoln Laboratory, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 29% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 26% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (86 scored).
  • The most common title held at MIT Lincoln Laboratory is Summer Research Intern, then Research Intern.
  • Of the 86 people here with a school on file, 17 list MIT (19.8%), then Northeastern (10). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 51% of the 86 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
  • 36% of the 86 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
  • Of the 68 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 19 rose, 40 stayed level and 9 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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