After NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- 24%Joined a startup8
- 24%Joined a big company8
- 52%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave NASA Goddard Space Flight Center most often go to Google, JPMorganChase and Northrop Grumman. 24% go small
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's headcount: 38 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 262 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 380.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 25% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3695% of the people here
- Median tenure
- –only 15 stays here have both a start and an end on the record, too few to take a median from
Put NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 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 Google (8% of recorded departures).
17 recorded arrivals from 16 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 17 recorded arrivals shown, 17 more from 16 other companies9 of 38 recorded departures shown, 29 more to 27 other companies
How long people stay
47%<1y
20%1-2y
20%2-4y
7%4-7y
7%7y+
15 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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3213
1114
3315
5516
4217
3518
6419
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2422
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0024
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 36 joined, 34 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%90
0Eng Scorer caliber, 38 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern6
- Intern3
- Software Engineer3
3 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.
- 26%Exceptional or strong10 people
- 32%Solid12 people
- 42%Emerging or unproven16 people
38 of the 38 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 10 of the 38 people here with a read sit in them, 26%. 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.
28%Titles that rose9 of 32 classified people
- 28%Rose9 people
- 72%Stayed level23 people
32 of the 38 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 32 of the 38 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
- University of Maryland13.2%
- Carnegie Mellon7.9%
- MIT7.9%
- Princeton7.9%
- Stanford7.9%
- UC Berkeley7.9%
The 6 most listed schools among the 38 people here with a school on file.
Of the 38 people here with a school on file, 5 list University of Maryland, 3 list Carnegie Mellon and 3 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
37%have a public GitHub account on their profile
14 of the 38 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
58% of the people who have worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Everyone on the map
- 58%SF Bay Area22 · map 47%
- 18%Washington DC7 · map 7%
- 16%New York6 · map 33%
- 8%Somewhere else3
All 38 people who worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 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 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: 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 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 38 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: 2 are there now and 36 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is Google (3 people, 8% of recorded departures), followed by JPMorganChase and Northrop Grumman.
- Of those who moved on from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 24% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 24% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (38 scored).
- The most common title held at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is Software Engineer Intern, then Intern.
- Of the 38 people here with a school on file, 5 list University of Maryland (13.2%), then Carnegie Mellon (3). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 58% of the 38 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.
- 37% of the 38 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
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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