After MITRE
- 3%Founded something9
- 22%Joined a startup61
- 26%Joined a big company71
- 49%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave MITRE most often go to Capital One, Booz Allen and Microsoft. Of them, 3% found something next and 22% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y 4m
Not MITRE's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 385 people on a map of 67,181, No. 56 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 3850.6% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 10026% of the people here
- Moved on
- 28574% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 4mmiddle half 1y 8m to 5y 6m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Booz Allen. Most leave for Capital One (5% of recorded departures).
45 of 285 recorded arrivals shown, 240 more from 222 other companies72 of 297 recorded departures shown, 225 more to 195 other companies
The MITRE mafia
9 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 3% of those who moved on, half of them within 5 months of leaving. The bars cover the ’17 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
15%<1y
16%1-2y
29%2-4y
23%4-7y
18%7y+
294 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
5712
6813
18714
191415
381716
211817
332218
332719
331820
663321
433522
342623
282324
105525
8726
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 395 joined, 317 left.
Caliber
74mediantop 10%84
0Eng Scorer caliber, 175 scored99
there now 63 moved on 79. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern49
- Software Engineer42
- Senior Software Engineer24
- Lead Software Engineer13
- Artificial Intelligence Engineer12
- Intermediate Software Engineer12
- Associate Software Engineer11
- Data Scientist10
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 26% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 9%Exceptional or strong15 people
- 27%Solid47 people
- 44%Emerging77 people
- 21%Unproven36 people
175 of the 385 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
15 of the 175 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.
45%Titles that rose133 of 297 classified people
- 45%Rose133 people
- 45%Stayed level135 people
- 10%Fell29 people
297 of the 385 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
- Georgia Tech11.6%
- George Mason8.9%
- Virginia Tech7.6%
- University of Maryland6.8%
- University of Virginia6.6%
- Johns Hopkins5.0%
- Carnegie Mellon4.2%
- Cornell4.2%
The 8 most listed schools among the 381 people here with a school on file.
44 of the 381 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 34 list George Mason and 29 list Virginia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
22%have a public GitHub account on their profile
86 of the 385 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
48% of the people who have worked at MITRE and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
MITRE
Everyone on the map
- 48%Washington DC186 · map 13%
- 15%SF Bay Area57 · map 41%
- 11%New York44 · map 18%
- 5%Boston21 · map 2%
- 2%Seattle9 · map 5%
- 2%Los Angeles7 · map 5%
- 1%Baltimore4 · map 0.7%
- 1%Denver4 · map 0.8%
- 14%Somewhere else53
All 385 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 working at MITRE: 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 MITRE, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 385 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at MITRE: 100 are there now, 285 have moved on.
- Most leave for Capital One: 14 people, 5% of recorded departures. Then Booz Allen and Microsoft.
- Most arrive from Booz Allen: 10 people. Then Lockheed Martin and Google.
- Median tenure at MITRE: 3y 4m, middle half 1y 8m to 5y 6m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after MITRE, 3% went to a founder title next, 22% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 26% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 74 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 175 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 44 of the 381 people here with one on file (11.6%). Then George Mason (34).
- 48% of the 385 people here who list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 22% of the 385 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 133 rose, 135 stayed level, 29 fell, out of the 297 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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