After MITRE
- 3%Founded something3
- 21%Joined a startup20
- 21%Joined a big company20
- 54%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave MITRE most often go to Amazon, Meta and Booz Allen Hamilton. 3% found something next. 21% go small. Median stay 3y 1m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not MITRE's headcount: 136 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 66 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1360.5% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3828% of the people here
- Moved on
- 9872% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 1mmiddle half 1y 3m to 4y 3m
Put MITRE 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 arrive from Booz Allen Hamilton. Most leave for Amazon (5% of recorded departures).
3 of 98 recorded arrivals shown, 95 more from 93 other companies19 of 102 recorded departures shown, 83 more to 72 other companies
How long people stay
17%<1y
18%1-2y
34%2-4y
25%4-7y
6%7y+
83 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
2312
3213
8514
4615
13816
7817
151018
141119
13820
251721
191122
141023
10524
51225
1226
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 153 joined, 118 left.
Caliber
78mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 136 scored99
there now 66 moved on 82. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern29
- Software Engineer16
- Senior Software Engineer9
- Artificial Intelligence Engineer7
- Intermediate Software Engineer7
- Associate Software Engineer6
- Data Scientist5
- Software Development Intern5
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 28% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 11%Exceptional or strong15 people
- 31%Solid42 people
- 43%Emerging58 people
- 15%Unproven21 people
136 of the 136 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 15 of the 136 people here with a read sit in them, 11%. 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.
33%Titles that rose35 of 107 classified people
- 33%Rose35 people
- 58%Stayed level62 people
- 9%Fell10 people
107 of the 136 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 107 of the 136 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
- George Mason8.2%
- Cornell7.4%
- MIT7.4%
- University of Virginia7.4%
- Virginia Tech7.4%
- University of Maryland6.7%
- Georgia Tech5.2%
- Tufts4.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 135 people here with a school on file.
Of the 135 people here with a school on file, 11 list George Mason, 10 list Cornell and 10 list MIT. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
23%have a public GitHub account on their profile
31 of the 136 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
46% of the people who have worked at MITRE and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 7% of everyone on the map.
MITRE
Everyone on the map
- 46%Washington DC62 · map 7%
- 24%SF Bay Area33 · map 47%
- 21%New York28 · map 33%
- 2%Seattle3 · map 3%
- 7%Somewhere else10
All 136 people who worked at MITRE 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 MITRE: 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 MITRE, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 136 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at MITRE: 38 are there now and 98 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after MITRE is Amazon (5 people, 5% of recorded departures), followed by Meta and Booz Allen Hamilton.
- The most common previous employer before MITRE is Booz Allen Hamilton (3 people).
- The median tenure at MITRE is 3y 1m (middle half 1y 3m to 4y 3m).
- Of those who moved on from MITRE, 3% went on to a founder title, 21% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 21% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at MITRE is 78 on the 0 to 99 scale (136 scored).
- The most common title held at MITRE is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 135 people here with a school on file, 11 list George Mason (8.2%), then Cornell (10). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 46% of the 136 people here who list a location live in Washington DC today, against 7% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 23% of the 136 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 107 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 35 rose, 62 stayed level and 10 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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