After MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- 29%Joined a startup55
- 29%Joined a big company56
- 42%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave MIT Lincoln Laboratory most often go to Google, Microsoft and Meta. Of them, 29% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 11m
Not MIT Lincoln Laboratory's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 251 people on a map of 67,181, No. 90 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2510.4% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3012% of the people here
- Moved on
- 22188% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 11mmiddle half 7m to 3y 10m
Put MIT Lincoln Laboratory side by side with another employer.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Google (5% of recorded departures).
32 of 178 recorded arrivals shown, 146 more from 136 other companies47 of 202 recorded departures shown, 155 more to 141 other companies
How long people stay
33%<1y
18%1-2y
27%2-4y
12%4-7y
11%7y+
158 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
8512
11913
131514
151115
201616
211917
222618
232319
121320
201821
222222
191523
141124
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 227 joined, 216 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 116 scored99
Titles held here
- Summer Research Intern24
- Research Intern18
- Associate Staff16
- Technical Staff16
- Software Engineer14
- Assistant Staff10
- Summer Intern9
- Associate Technical Staff8
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 27% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 15%Strong17 people
- 42%Solid49 people
- 33%Emerging38 people
- 10%Unproven12 people
116 of the 251 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
17 of the 116 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 15%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
33%Titles that rose54 of 163 classified people
- 33%Rose54 people
- 48%Stayed level78 people
- 19%Fell31 people
163 of the 251 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
- MIT29.3%
- Georgia Tech10.4%
- Northeastern6.4%
- Stanford5.2%
- Carnegie Mellon4.8%
- UIUC4.8%
- UC Berkeley4.4%
- Harvard3.6%
The 8 most listed schools among the 249 people here with a school on file.
73 of the 249 people here with a school on file list MIT, 26 list Georgia Tech and 16 list Northeastern. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
25%have a public GitHub account on their profile
62 of the 251 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 MIT Lincoln Laboratory and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Everyone on the map
- 32%SF Bay Area81 · map 41%
- 27%Boston67 · map 2%
- 10%New York25 · map 18%
- 10%Washington DC24 · map 13%
- 4%Los Angeles10 · map 5%
- 3%Seattle8 · map 5%
- 2%Atlanta4 · map 1%
- 1%Denver3 · map 0.8%
- 12%Somewhere else29
All 251 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 working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory: 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 MIT Lincoln Laboratory, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 251 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory: 30 are there now, 221 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 10 people, 5% of recorded departures. Then Microsoft and Meta.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 7 people. Then Cisco and MITRE.
- Median tenure at MIT Lincoln Laboratory: 1y 11m, middle half 7m to 3y 10m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after MIT Lincoln Laboratory, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 29% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 29% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 82 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 116 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Summer Research Intern, then Research Intern.
- Top school: MIT, listed by 73 of the 249 people here with one on file (29.3%). Then Georgia Tech (26).
- 32% of the 251 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 41% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 25% of the 251 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 54 rose, 78 stayed level, 31 fell, out of the 163 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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