After Nasdaq
- 19%Joined a startup9
- 42%Joined a big company20
- 40%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Nasdaq most often go to Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Of them, 19% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 5m
Not Nasdaq's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 56 people on a map of 67,181, No. 422 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 560.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 611% of the people here
- Moved on
- 5089% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 5mmiddle half 2m to 3y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Microsoft. Most leave for Amazon (8% of recorded departures).
4 of 40 recorded arrivals shown, 36 more from 35 other companies11 of 51 recorded departures shown, 40 more to 35 other companies
How long people stay
40%<1y
20%1-2y
20%2-4y
17%4-7y
3%7y+
30 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: 55 joined, 50 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 31 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern9
- Software Engineer6
- Machine Learning Intern5
- Software Developer3
4 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.
- 26%Exceptional or strong8 people
- 29%Solid9 people
- 32%Emerging10 people
- 13%Unproven4 people
31 of the 56 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
8 of the 31 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 26%. 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.
28%Titles that rose13 of 47 classified people
- 28%Rose13 people
- 64%Stayed level30 people
- 9%Fell4 people
47 of the 56 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
- MIT50.0%
- Georgia Tech8.9%
- Stanford7.1%
The 3 most listed schools among the 56 people here with a school on file.
28 of the 56 people here with a school on file list MIT, 5 list Georgia Tech and 4 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
32%have a public GitHub account on their profile
18 of the 56 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
34% of the people who have worked at Nasdaq and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
Nasdaq
Everyone on the map
- 34%New York19 · map 18%
- 25%SF Bay Area14 · map 41%
- 11%Boston6 · map 2%
- 5%Los Angeles3 · map 5%
- 5%Washington DC3 · map 13%
- 20%Somewhere else11
All 56 people who worked at Nasdaq 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 Nasdaq: 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 Nasdaq, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 56 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Nasdaq: 6 are there now, 50 have moved on.
- Most leave for Amazon: 4 people, 8% of recorded departures. Then Microsoft and Google.
- Most arrive from Microsoft: 4 people.
- Median tenure at Nasdaq: 1y 5m, middle half 2m to 3y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Nasdaq, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 19% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 42% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 82 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 31 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: MIT, listed by 28 of the 56 people here with one on file (50.0%). Then Georgia Tech (5).
- 34% of the 56 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 18% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 32% of the 56 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 13 rose, 30 stayed level, 4 fell, out of the 47 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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